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>We also did "university politics", basically creating pressure for professors to make good textbooks. I typeset one myself for a professor who wanted to "beat"

>We also did "university politics", basically creating pressure for professors to make good textbooks. I typeset one myself for a professor who wanted to "beat" another one. Out of curiosity, how would his textbook beat another colleague's?

apetresc 10y ago
Popularity, I assume; which is probably why he put "beat" in scare quotes.
igk 10y ago
Nicer diagrams, better structure, better writing, students being happy with the script, students grades