On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:15:52AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:32:49PM -0500, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > > > You mentioned scientific community before mentioning Word. > > I do not know which scientific community you belong to, > > but I know for sure that all computer scientists, mathematicians, and > > physicists I know use LaTeX. It's _THE_ format in their journals and > > This is (almost hopelessly) naive. A LOT of places REQUIRE Word format. > This includes physicists, and for sociology etc. I understand the > situation is even worse.
John, you really have a penchant to step on my toes for no particular reason. :-) Hopelessly naive implies that I'm an idiot who doesn't know what's he talking about. Yet I'm not. I have clearly indicated that I'm talking about the scientific community I belong to, _NOT_ sociology, etc. I know too well how ubiquitous Word is, and I do not need a reminder. Again, I was talking about my profession, and again about scientific community only. Because in business, Word and Microsoft rule. I grant you that some Physics journals require Word. I have a few friends who are physicists; they use LaTeX, and that's why I mentioned physicists above, too. You've probably noticed that I said above "and physicists _I KNOW_". Let's take them out of the argument since I do not know enough about the physics journal requirements. However, all important computer science and math journals/conferences welcome, and in fact prefer LaTeX. IEEE has LaTeX style for their Transactions on XXX and conferences -- that's the biggest world organisation for Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineers. ACM has LaTeX style for their Journals and Transactions -- extremely important organisation for all Computer Scientists/Engineers. As mentioned in previous post their huge Digital Library has all the documents back to the middle '80s in PDF format and the citations for the documents in BibTeX format _ONLY_. USENIX has both LaTeX and troff styles for their conferences. Very important conferences to publish at, if you are a serious researcher. AMS -- the world biggest Math society is the major promoter of (La)TeX. SIAM -- second largest math society has LaTeX style MAA -- another large math society enables some features _ONLY_ to authors who used LaTeX All these organisations prefer LaTeX. All of them are the most important places to publish if you are a Computer Scientist, Engineer or Mathematician. Most of the publishers in Computer Science and Mathematics accept LaTeX typeset books. Too many to list them here. I rest my case. -- Zvezdan Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/
