Comments on: Thesis/Dissertation AntiPatterns - EPS Files

By: James Thigpen

James Thigpen — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:43:49 +0000

Because none exist that actually work… very well at least.

LaTeX wants to be XML, but it was 40 years too early.

Trying to typeset math in word, or handle references or anything else fails miserably.

Plus it’s free… It’s pretty impressive… but it feels old… and cobbled together with bandaids and dreams.

By: shey

shey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:01:40 +0000

so why have computer scientist chosen LaTeX over the presumably simpler alternatives?

By: James Thigpen

James Thigpen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:17:55 +0000

Because if you put LaTeX in front of a biologist they would literally explode.

LaTeX, for better or worse (read: worse), *is* programming.

After all, it was created by Knuth (Well technically he created TeX but whatever).

By: Shey

Shey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:53:45 +0000

This may sound silly, but as an outsider, submitting your paper to a journal seems overly complicated, why are there so many document and image types, can’t everyone use LaTeX and jpegs or png?