- From: Ben shimol Yehuda <address@hidden>
- To: Amir Michail <address@hidden>
- Cc: Ben shimol Yehuda <address@hidden>, texmacs-users <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: The real reason for requiring LaTeX submissions in academia?
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 20:52:14 +0000
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I looked at
https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
I’m not that impressed. The criteria mentioned are for breakthroughs in CS.
I know many bright people from there areas that lack the required approach to write in LaTeX and are very good in Mathematics / Physics / Eng. etc.
In person I use LaTeX a lot for publications but when working with others the first phases are with the tool they use (mostly WORD, LaTeX comes in in the last phase)
I believe that the community of potential TeXMacs users is much larger than converting the CS community. Maybe the effort should be in this direction ?
Best
yehuda
Nowadays there are many conferences and journals accepting ms word documents so you guess is just a guess
On a more personal opinion I do not find real justification to relate latex to any other measure of research quality
Best
Yehuda
Academics in theoretical computer science do use the TeX test to determine whether a paper is worth reading.
As for a solution, maybe create another test based on *content* that uses machine learning and performs at least as well as the TeX test to tell you whether a paper is worth reading?
Amir
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Hello,
Maybe it is because LaTeX is used as a filter to discourage non-serious submissions to conferences and journals?
If this is the real reason, then the fact that TeXmacs is easier to learn and more pleasant to use is actually a problem.
Is this the real reason for not accepting TeXmacs submissions (i.e., without exporting to LaTeX)?
Amir
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