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While I agree with most of what you stated but imo, LaTeX helps with pretty much everything the community needs. Hell, it even has a Reference Management Softwa
by arthtyagi 6y ago
While I agree with most of what you stated but imo, LaTeX helps with pretty much everything the community needs. Hell, it even has a Reference Management Software going for it to manage citations easily.
It's really easy to convert to other formats ( even HTML ) so it's not like you're missing anything. And most of all, the files are structured.
Now, I get it that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the kind of support and features LaTeX already has, I don't see why anyone would want to move on in the first place. The alternative offers slightly less and at no "significant" advantage. So what I think is, the community would prefer LaTeX in the foreseeable future.
- kartoshechka 6y agoI get the feeling that most simply don't care about status quo, but they have been in this "industry" for quite some time, aren't flaws of PDF transparent? While I don't mind Latex, I would argue HTML is better suited for automated processing, whatever purpose it meant for
- impendia 6y ago> aren't flaws of PDF transparent? Ummmmm... no. Not really. > better suited for automated processing I write my papers for other humans. I'm dimly aware that there are a variety of "analytics" companies that are trying to elbow their way into academia. For example there is this company https://academicanalytics.com/ https://academicanalytics.com/ of which my university is unfortunately a customer. They have some dashboard or something which purports to show my grandbosses how productive I am. I do not wish them well, and I am certainly not going to alter my workflow to accommodate them.