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Re: [TeXmacs] An emergency latex mode for unexpected PhD advisor visits?


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  • From: Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>
  • To: Amir Michail <address@hidden>
  • Cc: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] An emergency latex mode for unexpected PhD advisor visits?
  • Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 23:15:37 +0200
Amir,


On 1. Jun 2019, at 20:58, Amir Michail <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

It seems there is a lot of social pressure in academia for using LaTeX and avoiding WYSIWYG. I suspect that PhD students are particularly susceptible to this social pressure and would probably appreciate an emergency latex editing mode that can be activated in less than a second and is at least partially functional. It might come in handy during those unexpected advisor visits.



I’m in academia (mathematics) and I do not see any pressure in avoiding WYSIWIG. Simply there is much conservatorism about thinking that LaTeX is the best tool for the job and that usual WYSIWIG tools are not good for mathematics. 
And there is some constraint given by the  fact that editors and preprint servers like arXiv essentially require you to submit your paper in LaTeX. 

Is not clear what should mean an *emergency* latex mode. Just use latex, then. 

I know some mathematicians who use Scientific Workplace for example or LyX. I think people must have some knowledge of TeX/LaTeX but there is surely no obligation to work in it. Actually  I use TeXmacs in  my  everyday work in research, in teaching. I supervise PhD thesis and I give some introduction to TeXmacs to all my master, Ph D or postdoctoral students. I’ve written many academic paper with it as  Joris does and as many of the people working with TeXmacs do (Basile, Gregoire, Miguel). 

One of my student, Marco Furlan, wrote enterely his PhD (and master) thesis  with TeXmacs:

With others we wrote papers in TeXmacs and for one reason or another the final composition of the thesis has been done in LaTeX.

Miguel de Benito also wrote his thesis direclty in TeXmacs:


Usually I manage to convince younger collaborators to use TeXmacs, for example the following papers have been written enterely in TeXmacs with a very late  conversion to LaTeX to put them in arXiv:


Most of the papers written by Joris are in TeXmacs: 


I regularly try to make my colleagues aware of the existence of TeXmacs and apart from the usual response “I’m used to LaTeX so I stick to it”, I do not feel there is really *pressure* to use LaTeX.

So I’m not sure what are you worried about.

Best  regards,
Massimiliano Gubinelli






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