Re: The problem with not owning the software

On 12/31/2024 2:25 PM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 13:18:02 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
 

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LaTeX is a buncha wrapper macros to simplify TeX, I think.
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 LaTex is the global standard for mathematical typesetting.
 Regarding mathematics publishing of any kind, there is no mention,
and there never was any mention, and there never will be any mention,
of Microslop.

Another of Feeb's daily lies and ignorance:
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"I write Math books in MS Word 2007 with Mathtype 6.0 for writting equations."  Dec 2013
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"I am writing a book using MS Word 2007. The book will have lots of mathematical calculations, equations, formulas, square-root symbols, squares and cube symbols, etc. and will span across algebra, polynomial equations, differentiation, integration, etc." Aug 2019
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"I used to work for an academic press, and we accepted all our journal articles in word except for one math journal that was in TeX." 2021
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"Over the past few decades, I’ve written hundreds of technical documents containing diagrams, tables, and mathematics, including a 400 page book about computer geometry.
Prior to starting the book, I used MS Word for everything. For the book, I switched back and forth between Word and LaTeX 3 or 4 times, and eventually settled on LaTeX. I still use MS Word or Google Docs for everything except books.
It took me a very long time to get the formatting set up the way I wanted in LaTeX. The memoir package was a big help — in the LaTeX world the solution to every problem is “there’s a package”. But your publisher might give you a document template, anyway, so you’ll have no choice about formatting.
Creating tables in LaTeX is ridiculously complicated, compared to MS Word. For diagrams, the TeX purists favor tools like Tikz and Asymptote, in which you essentially create a picture by writing code. I find this approach impossible, so I make pictures in drawing packages, or PowerPoint, or CAD systems, and include them in the LaTeX document as PDF. That works fine.
I think LaTeX is faster for simple in-line math, but for big complex equations, I find Word faster because I can see the equation emerging as I type it, so I make fewer mistakes.
In the end, I chose LaTeX because I very much like the appearance of the Computer Modern fonts, and getting those to work in MS Word was painful. But some publishers will insist on changing fonts, anyway." Jun 2021
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Also:
https://superuser.com/questions/340650/type-math-formulas-in-microsoft-word-the-latex-way
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Typing_Mathematics_in_Microsoft_Word
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/q4be8m/why_microsoft_word_isnt_much_used_for_writing/

It's FOSS LaTex all the way!

Definitely not.

Microslop is for brain-dead secretaries what cannot even
add 2+2.

Say there Jethro, how many prime numbers in that equation?