[OS X TeX] Getting students to use LaTeX (and apa.cls)

[Nick Black]

If I may add my two cents worth.  I am UCL, London, a university of
around 40,000 students and lecturers.  I have to hand in my
dissertation in a weeks time, so I asked my tutor today if the
university/faculty can supply a bibliography style file for the
Harvard referencing that my department wants.

Apparently not.  It seems I am the only person in my department
(Geomatic Engineering) to have used *Tex in 12 years.  What a thought!
 All those long Keplerian element equations...  But not a harvard.sty
file anywhere.


On 8/17/06, Themis Matsoukas <matsoukas at psu.edu> wrote:
> On 8/17/06, Michael Kubovy <kubovy at virginia.edu> wrote:
>
> > Your write "I don't let my students use anything else". Do you impose
> > this on students working in your lab, or students in a course? If the
> > latter, are these grad students? How do you persuade them to do
> > what's best for them and abandon the deeply ingrained MSW habit?
>
> Last semester I taught two undergraduates in my lab to use latex.
> They had to start from scratch with MikTeX (not much help from me
> there), but they got it quite fast. In a dumb-down world of low
> expectations where anything beyond MSW is too geeky and anything
> beyond high-school algebra is too advanced, these kids made me feel
> better about the future.
>
> Themis
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