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by michaelrpeskin
2391 days ago
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"When I was a grad student I knew multiple people in STEM fields who tried to do their thesis in Word (or equivalent) and gave up in frustration, moving it all to LaTeX. I never knew anyone who successfully went the other direction. I don't know if that is still the case." Ha! I started my thesis in LaTeX but my adviser only wanted a word document for reading it, so I had to go the other way :) |
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One person I knew gave up on word when it suddenly lost half a dozen figures they no longer had the originals for. Never did figure out what the mechanism was, but you bet they became more disciplined about backups.
I'm sure it's much more reliable today, but once you had a long document with a bunch of figures, tables, and equations in it, Word started doing odd things. Including just refusing input for a couple of minutes with no message, then crashing. Good times.