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by BenFranklin100 924 days ago
This is untrue. It’s almost all done in Word.

Moreover, there’s a more fundamental point being neglected: the PhD thesis should be the worst thing one ever will write as no one is ever going to read it. The published papers based on it will be read instead, and if there are no published papers based on the thesis, it’s because your PhD work was shit.

Taking the time to beautifully format a thesis is at best a waste of time and at worst an exercise in vanity.