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Is there a single serious LaTeX user that doesn't have a story of losing hours of time because they didn't understand some of the internals well enough? I've probably lost days before.

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Honestly I never lost anything in latex.

If you have never run into problems with macros expanding in the wrong sort of environment then you have probably not used it very extensively. If you have run into the problem of switching commands because of their fragile-ness then is it true that you never lost any time debugging?

Ah I never used the macros, just the standard commands and using pre styled layouts.

That would explain it :-)

But I guess it’s not easy to save work in latex when in macro mode?

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