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From: Vivienne Dunstan on 20 Jul 2010 17:55
James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> There seems to be a migration curve, in that as an Undergraduate and
> Graduate student, Word is found to be adequate. When more complicated page

I recently completed a PhD, and was a member of a UK-wide forum for PhD
students. Almost everyone there used Word. Only a small number use
LaTeX, usually those in the more complex formula-requiring subjects.

My husband used LaTeX in his computer science PhD over a decade ago, but
his was theoretical computer science, and he really did need it for lots
of horrible formulae that Word would not have been able to cope with.
Many computer science PhDs can be written fine in Word.

As for me as a history student, I moaned at Word a lot, but it was still
far simpler, and I really like the WYSYWYG approach, than LaTeX.

Viv
From: Jack Campin - bogus address on 20 Jul 2010 20:45
> I wonder if anything is as satisfactory as (variants of) TeX for
> mathematics papers.

Handwriting.

Ever seen Dana Scott's manuscripts on denotational semantics? - they
were widely circulated before journal publication. Very, very pretty
and extremely readable.

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