[forgotketchup]

> I've been checking the (Word-generated) "papers" from this guy's group at NASA, they're extremely shoddy.

Not defending this particular paper, but I'm curious why you highlighted the fact that it's written in Word. Just about everybody in physics these days uses Word to compose papers (Word + Mendeley is a dream, by the way). Maybe you think he's not a 'real man' because he doesn't sling raw LaTeX?

[shoyer]

"everybody in physics these days uses Word to compose papers"

What subfield of physics have you worked in?

In my experience, this is not remotely true. Almost paper I read in grad school (e.g., on arXiv/quant-ph) was written in LaTeX. The exceptions written in Word were indeed quite likely to be the work of crackpots...

[forgotketchup]

>What subfield of physics have you worked in?

Experimental condensed matter physics (free molecular beams). Never met anyone in my research group, or any other research group that anyone in my group collaborated with, who recently (in the past five years) composed a paper in LaTeX. I'm sure my thesis advisor did so when he was in grad school back in the dark ages, but even he uses Word.

> (e.g., on arXiv/quant-ph)

Yes, well, that is where the crackpots tend to like to hang out, isn't it?

[TTPrograms]

What university is publishing papers in Word?

[forgotketchup]

I don't know of anyone who publishes in Word (and universities don't publish papers, except for dissertations), but everyone composes papers in Word.

[TTPrograms]

What research group composes papers in Word?

EDIT: Oh, you mean research groups that don't do math.

[forgotketchup]

That's right. We like to do science.