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> No LaTeX, extremely minimal bibliography. I prefer TeX! And I've published applied math with just TeX, sent to Information Sciences, an Elsevier journal, an

> No LaTeX, extremely minimal bibliography. I prefer TeX! And I've published applied math with just TeX, sent to Information Sciences, an Elsevier journal, and they handled the TeX source easily! I prefer TeX because Knuth's book is shorter and easier to read than the books on LaTeX. Yes, for TeX I wrote about 100 macros for table of contents, cross references, help with bibliographies, ordered, unordered, and simple lists, boxes around text, etc. So, it's not all just LaTeX guys -- TeX is still darned nice! Nothing comes between me and my TeX! Give up TeX? It will have to be pried out of my cold, dead fingers!

hpcjoe 9y ago
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX, there was at least minimal support at our PhD office (minimal in the sense of they would accept postscript at the time). My choices were MS Word (in early 90s, so ... yuck) which I didn't have on any machine I had access to, or LaTeX. So LaTeX it was. I wound up using some of the APS macros, and a number of things I wrote. For me, the cool part of this is that my thesis was built using a multi-pass makefile. I ran it on all of my machines (SGI Indy, OS2 laptop) at the time. Since then I've written documentation for 2 projects in LaTeX. It worked quite well, but then I was forced into using the dark side's tools (Word) as none of my colleagues were versed in the finer side of (La)TeX.
- graycat 9y ago
  One reason I avoided LaTeX is that I was unsure just how my macros would conflict with what was in LaTeX. I'm sure LaTeX has a lot of super tricky stuff that does really good stuff and was too much work for me to implement, but with LaTeX if something went wrong then I'd be stuck-o since I would not be able to debug LaTeX. So, TeX it is. If there are bugs in my macros, then I fix the bugs. Yes, I got around to TeX in about 1998 on OS/2. Now on Windows, It's my standard for all more serious word whacking, of course, especially for anything mathematical. My TeX setup has a converter from TeX's DVI file type to PDF, and my Adobe Acrobat reader can print to FAX, and my computer has a FAX modem card I run my land line phone through. So, net, I can send letters from TeX to Congress!

hpcjoe 9y ago

I wrote my thesis in LaTeX, there was at least minimal support at our PhD office (minimal in the sense of they would accept postscript at the time). My choices were MS Word (in early 90s, so ... yuck) which I didn't have on any machine I had access to, or LaTeX. So LaTeX it was. I wound up using some of the APS macros, and a number of things I wrote. For me, the cool part of this is that my thesis was built using a multi-pass makefile. I ran it on all of my machines (SGI Indy, OS2 laptop) at the time. Since then I've written documentation for 2 projects in LaTeX. It worked quite well, but then I was forced into using the dark side's tools (Word) as none of my colleagues were versed in the finer side of (La)TeX.

graycat 9y ago
One reason I avoided LaTeX is that I was unsure just how my macros would conflict with what was in LaTeX. I'm sure LaTeX has a lot of super tricky stuff that does really good stuff and was too much work for me to implement, but with LaTeX if something went wrong then I'd be stuck-o since I would not be able to debug LaTeX. So, TeX it is. If there are bugs in my macros, then I fix the bugs. Yes, I got around to TeX in about 1998 on OS/2. Now on Windows, It's my standard for all more serious word whacking, of course, especially for anything mathematical. My TeX setup has a converter from TeX's DVI file type to PDF, and my Adobe Acrobat reader can print to FAX, and my computer has a FAX modem card I run my land line phone through. So, net, I can send letters from TeX to Congress!