On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:00:08PM -0500, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > 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.
I didn't mean to offend. Sorry. > I grant you that some Physics journals require Word. I have a few OK. This is why I said what I said, you seemed to be saying no physicists needed Word for their papers, submissions etc. > 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. I know several physicist friends who have to use Word. Indeed, they have been told any attempt to even submit a *thesis* in any other format would be rejected a priori. > All these organisations prefer LaTeX. All of them are the most > important places to publish if you are a Computer Scientist, Engineer or > Mathematician. That's fine. But you should, and cannot, discount the reality of the huge number of potential LyX users who are forced into the realities of Word. regards, john
