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\section{Have you collaborated with other researchers using LaTeX files? How did that go?}  resp. It’s often quite problematic, surprisingly, because even the people I work with on research papers, even my faculty members, they don’t use LaTeX. So I have to send them the PDF. Luckily, I do work with an advisor who is a little tech-savvy, so he actually has a PDF editor. But it’s cumbersome because he’ll send it back and there will be notes in the paper, but it’s not quite clear which are his notes, what did I put, and it screws up the page alignment.  It’s quite miserable. \textbf{It’s not really easy to leave comments in PDFs.}   Even if my colleagues did have the ability to read LaTeX documents, I have so many tables and graphs and things to import that sending them the file wouldn’t be sufficient. They would need all these other documents so they could compile the paper.   Reading your LaTeX file is a little overwhelming sometimes, because of the code, like your footnotes aren’t at the bottom of the page, they’re in the text. It’s confusing. And always compiling the PDF to view it is a pain.