I’ve started using Latex and it’s exam document class to set our recruitment question papers. This is after spending some time wrangling with NeoOffice to get the formatting right. The biggest issue for me was that I just couldn’t get nested lists to work. I’m sure the options are all there somewhere, but since I don’t do much word processing it didn’t seem worth the effort.

I could possibly have used HTML instead of Latex, but then I would have had to invest more time into the css and getting the formatting correct. The exam document class let me get up and running pretty fast. And I doubt html would look better.

Latex has a couple of plus points over the competition, the ability to generate pretty mathematical formulae, embed the solutions into the question paper, syntax highlighting for code snippets. And it handles page breaks beautifully.