Hello, On 12 December 2011 11:28, John Stalker <[email protected]> wrote: > As a thesis advisor myself, though not of this thesis, I would say that > the advice below might or might not be correct, depending on field of > study. I have some affection for troff, but TeX and its progeny really > do produce much nicer looking equations. In a field where equations > are usually simple and there are only one or two per page there is no > reason not to use eqn|troff. In something like Mathematics or Theoretical > Physics, where equations can be quite complex and are everywhere, you > really want to use some TeX variant. Using eqn|troff would be like using > MS Comic Sans for the text. Yes, the content is the same, but the form > would make you look eccentric or incompetent. It's true the few people > read theses, but that's no reason to piss them off unnecessarily, since > they decide whether you get a degree or not.
Funnily enough, I've been trying to write my PhD thesis on Theoretical Physics using eqn|troff. In my life I've read so much shitty work written in LaTeX (i.e. nicely typeset, but ...) that, perhaps, I want to differentiate. And as I mentioned some time ago, writing math in the eqn language is just so much superior feeling for me, especially when typing unicode characters is possible. On the other hand, the truth is that the situation in plan9 troff/gs world is not good. Not good font coverage for math (e.g. bra-ket signs), not a suitable ps viewer, ... Ruda
