On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Michele Comitini < [email protected]> wrote:
The following argument is complete nonsense and stops me from reading the > full article. No one, unless writing a book that requires complex > mathematical notation is so foul to use TeX instead of LaTeX. If one does > it means that he spends more time studying TeX than doing his homework. > This is a (even if fundamental) report not a mathematical essay so using > a wysiwyg word processor suffice. > I think this argument is a good one. It suggests that the authors have not prepared the paper for submission to a physics journal; or, that, at any rate, it is not far along in the process. Lubos Motl does not appear to be drawing a distinction between TeX and LaTeX; he is drawing a distinction between TeX/LaTeX, on one hand, and a simple PDF typed up in a normal word processor, on the other. Presumably the former would be the expected form of submission to a mainstream physics journal. This is one of the details that makes me think there is no intention to submit for publication. Eric
