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Journals wouldn't accept generated PDFs? This genuinely shocking to me. Is this prelevant in all fields?

• dagw 9y ago
  Some do, if you've used their templates, and some don't. Most journals want to ensure a uniform look and feel across all their papers.
• 542458 9y ago
  No. Most places I submit to use PDFs and require authors to typeset themselves. Both Latex and Word templates are typically provided for you to fill your content into. But I still use Word, because odds are good that for any given paper I'll hit at least one collaborator/editor/proofreader/etc who doesn't know how to use Latex, and so using the lowest common denominator (word) saves us all a lot of complication.
  • seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    Word is why HCI papers have such bad kerning and word spacing in general (ironic, because HCI is the CS field closest to design and typography!). I’m from the PL community, where Latex is fairly standard, but co-authored a UIST paper in Word once, it was a nightmare and still didn’t look very good. Word just doesn’t do double columns very well, and such a niche use case doesn’t seem to be a priority for Microsoft.
    • 542458 9y ago
      Oh for sure. Column-spanning figures in particular are an unholy nightmare.