On Thursday, 26 January 2017 at 10:26:25 UTC, Chris wrote:
Er, yes. That's how it works. Always ask the publisher first. But that wasn't the question. The question was Markdown or LaTeX, and if you want to generate your own PDF for e.g. a M.A. or Ph.D., some people prefer LaTeX because of the fine grained control it offers. I don't know a single Ph.D. student who used Word who didn't have to fight with Word stubbornly restructuring the layout. The footnotes, the graphics ... a nightmare.
I believe I just used the default Word style. It's a goddamned text, why it needs any sort of sophisticated layout aside from fitting the page? I had no problem with footnotes maybe because I believe they shouldn't exists in such documents in the first place: if you want to write something, just write it where it fits. It's baffling to see footnotes in ISO standards: if it's something important, write it where it belongs, W3C and IETF got it right, their documents have no footnotes.
