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Re:Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly t... by criley2 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @07:59PM (#11293987)
It's about productivity for the 1% or 5% of stars who understand it and eat it and breathe it.

For the 90%+, it's an arbitrary checkbox requirement to be checked on the path towards something else.

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Re:Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly t... by RBerenguel on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @03:13AM (#11295558)
I don't eat and breathe LaTeX (although I try to use it for any typesetting needs: after a few years in academia it's much faster to do it this way than to open "Word") but the productivity enhancement on writing while forgetting of how it looks and just having to think about how you want it to look and letting the system handle it for you is invaluable.
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