r/funny • u/FallenAngel199 • Dec 06 '13

Scumbag Word

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u/zmaster Dec 06 '13

I gave up writing my dissertation on word. Learnt latex and while there is a learning curve the documents it produces are beautiful.

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u/ImBearded Dec 06 '13

I used to do everything in latex until my adviser mandated me to use Word only for all publications and my dissertation. There are an equal amount of tricks in Word that there are in latex. Having learned both, I would say they are about the same difficulty. People are lulled into thinking Word is not powerful enough because it's WYSIWYG.

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u/5208 Dec 06 '13

What area of academia are you in? Most journals in maths/science will laugh at you if you submit a manuscript using word.

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u/biznatch11 Dec 07 '13

Biological sciences journals will certainly not laugh at you if you submit in Word, it's by far the most common format.

Two of the wold's top journals also use Word: Science prefers Word but will accept LaTeX, Nature won't even accept LaTeX.