[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?