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Short of TeX/LaTeX, I can put up with a Google docs paper. I absolutely cannot stand a MS-Word paper. It's crippling.
by fizixer 7y ago
Short of TeX/LaTeX, I can put up with a Google docs paper.
I absolutely cannot stand a MS-Word paper. It's crippling.
- zwieback 7y agoAre you saying it's impossible to format a paper in Word to please you? Seems like there's a lot of options to get the look you want.
- fizixer 7y agoWell folks who prepare documents in Word, esp. formal documents, more often than not, pick the default rendering of Times New Roman (and I know the default in MS-Word is not TNR). And a standard MS-Word TNR document looks like crap. I'm sorry. But I have to admit I have an over-reaction to seeing an MS-Word document after spending more than a decade working with TeX/LaTeX exclusively. So part of the blame goes to me, and actually hurts my ability to keep up with the literature when I start avoid MS-Word papers.
- zwieback 7y agoYeah, the default Word style definitely isn't anything like a typeset document. For fun I downloaded the "Latex.dot" template and some computer modern fonts, with those you can make a first approximation of the Latex look in Word but it's still not the same. I've never been a fan of the Computer Modern font but the page layout and formating in Latex is certainly nice and just having a standard for scientific papers is a plus.