4 ms·
ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers (although I'm sure this is possible). The community behind ConTeXt has always been involved with boo
by coliveira 6y ago
ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers (although I'm sure this is possible). The community behind ConTeXt has always been involved with books and more complex material. So I guess they evolved into a niche of the TeX market, like music typesetting (MusiXTeX and friends).
Regarding Lua, I think it is a strange idea from the point of view of the typical LaTeX package writer. Not only you need to learn Lua, but you also have to write packages that are accepted only by this implementation of LaTeX. This is a clear disadvantage if you want to have a widely used package.
- JairoAdelRio 6y agoLua is orders of magnitude easier to learn than TeX. No macros, no expansion trickery and no obscure tricks to do things as complex calculations (either for typesetting or drawing).
- TylerE 6y ago> ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers Absolutely true. I would posit that most people writing LaTeX aren't writing up papers in it either (Most journals prefer or require Word these days). ConText isn't just for books though..it's great for any sort of thing with formatting...like, say, a resume.
- anonymousDan 6y agoHuh? I know of precisely zero journals/conferences where Word is commonly used (in CS at least).
- TylerE 6y agoHow about Nature? https://www.nature.com/srep/author-instructions/submission-guidelines https://www.nature.com/srep/author-instructions/submission-g... "Whilst Microsoft Word is preferred we also accept LaTeX, or PDF format." In general Word has eaten up everything that isn't hard core math.
- anonymousDan 6y agoNope. Like I said all of CS uses LaTeX.
- ranaexmachina 6y agoNot all of CS. It really depends on the sub field. But I would say most papers in CS are written in Latex though.
- TylerE 6y agoYes, because one field uses it, the rest of the universe is irrelevant. (PS: All the IEEE journals accept Word.
- coliveira 6y agoI think Word is more common in humanities and medical fields. In science and math, LaTeX is still the standard.
- Finnucane 6y agoI work for a university press and virtually all of our manuscripts come in as Word docs, but most of our books are indeed in humanities, most are not esp. math intensive. BUt now even Word can handle math markup well enough for say, an economics text. We occasionally get LaTex files, and it is difficult to integrate into our design workflow, they have to be handled completely separately.
- currymj 6y agoalmost all papers on arXiv are done in latex, you upload the source and they compile it on their servers. that’s a lot of papers! it’s most of math, CS, and physics, and some economics. it’s probably true that most papers aren’t written in LaTeX but I’m confident most people writing in LaTeX are writing scientific papers.
- the_svd_doctor 6y ago“Most journals prefer word” well it depends of the field... In mine, computational math, it’s 100% latex. Of course it’s a math heavy field.
- anon_tor_12345 6y ago>I would posit that most people writing LaTeX aren't writing up papers in it either what exactly do you think they're writing in it then? business cards? as the other commenter said: publishing across math/physics/cs i have never seen a journal not prefer latex to word. and while ieee accepts word it most certainly prefers latex: https://www.overleaf.com/org/ieee https://www.overleaf.com/org/ieee
- TylerE 6y agoManuals? Resumes? Other technical documents? Books?
- knolax 6y agoEven my undergraduate CS and EE classes expected me to turn in assignments in LaTeX. Which field are you working in?
- gspr 6y agoWhat? Most of my peers would laugh themselves silly if a journal asked for a word document.
- nesarkvechnep 6y agoI was doing a PhD in CS and one of the professors asked me to stop using LaTeX as it is “awful”.
- gspr 6y agoThat's a very rare attitude I think.
- QuesnayJr 6y agoEconomics is mostly LaTeX.
- cycomanic 6y agoOver the last 10 years or so there has definitely been a push by journals more towards word. I know that for some journals (osapublishing.org, which is optics so engineering/physics) this came at a time when they moved all their content to be accessible as html. I remember reading somewhere (maybe in their style guides) that they said that word allows them to extract the relevant information more easily, so I suspect that MS made some sort of publishing toolchain for this usecase and the publishers lapped it up. I know that a significant portion of colleagues still prefer to write their documents in latex, and the journals still accept them.