[OS X TeX] TeX and the wild wild world out there

[Alain Schremmer]

Paul Vickers wrote:

> Not sure 'acceptable' and 'ugly as hell' fit together.... I just  
> assessed a PhD thesis which had lots of fairly simple maths in it --  
> mostly set theory type stuff, very few subscripts, no fractions,  
> integrals, roots etc. Because the thesis was prepared in Word the  
> maths was, as you say, ugly as hell; however, to my eyes that makes  
> it unacceptable as it's actually very hard to read. It's a BIT LIKE  
> WRITING ALL YOUR THESIS BODY TEXT IN MONOSPACED CAPS.

Yes, and let's not accept, say, what the next Grothendieck/Perelman 
write because she doesn't want to take away any time from her 
mathematical work to learn the beautiful LaTeX. Hey, if she wants me to 
read her, she better accomodate my eyes and kiss my feet too.

I think that this kind of attitude is truly sad.

Regards
--schremmer



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