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Writing a 57-page math paper in something other than LaTex (appears to be Word for God's sake) is nothing short of Herculean.

• moserware 16y ago
  I'm the guilty party, so I can provide some background :) I used LaTeX in college for my math homework and it worked well for my needs back then. However, it had been a few years since I used it and I thought I would mainly use the accompanying paper to expand on a few things that I thought were too detailed for the blog post. So I thought "I'll just use Word and it'll make working with the images easy!" It started off with just a few things but then it grew... and grew... and grew. For example, I recently added a proof of the Gaussian convolution formula that added 10 pages (but helped me better understand what was happening). Over time, the gains I got from easy image support were counter-balanced by the trickier time spent with Word 2007's equation editor. To its credit though, Word 2007+'s equation editor is much better than the previous one. Regardless, the whole paper is sort of like a 57 page footnote to the blog post to prove that I really did have to cut a lot of things out.
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