Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't ring a bell > then clearly you've not had a lot of contact with academic publishing, > especially in Maths, Physics or CS, since probably 99% of researchers > in those fields write their papers in TeX or its cousin LaTeX. Calling > it a "word processor" is like calling Mozart a songwriter :-)
Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because its ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives? I know that in general use, I find Word horrendous. But I've never tried formulae in it, etc., nor used any word processor as a precision page layout engine, either. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows (TM) [Typhoid Mary]. They refuse to believe that there's anything wrong with it, but everyone else knows Windows is a disease that spreads. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
