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Re:What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs by Fomite on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:54PM (#10541961)
This. I find all over the place that the LaTeX-heavy fields assume everyone uses it for everything. This is definitely not the case - if I had to guess, a minority of papers overall are written in LaTeX.

And while easier to automate, I'll take a manuscript laid out by a professional any day of the week.

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Re:What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs by Turing_Machine on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:25PM (#10544413)
"I'll take a manuscript laid out by a professional any day of the week."

LaTeX with a good template looks much better than some of the "professional" work I've seen.

Also: the real question here is whether the "professional" layout adds enough scholarly value to make it worth paying the outrageous journal subscription price.

Journals are not intended to be aesthetic experiences. That is not their purpose. Their purpose is to disseminate knowledge. High prices are counterproductive to that goal.

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Re:What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs by Fomite on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:56PM (#10544760)
The dissemination of information is partially an aesthetic experience.
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