Re:LyX – The Document Processor
by thehappypm on Sunday October 18, 2020 @10:45PM
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I went to a snobby engineering college. Freshman year I learned about LaTeX but it was really complicated. I found LyX and loved it! I sent it in for a paper. A TA gave me bonus points for obviously using LaTeX. They were disappointed that I had used LyX. I still think about that a lot.
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Re:LyX – The Document Processor
by CrazyCatDog on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:34PM
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My dad took a proof I wrote in word equation editor for grad school admissions, rewrote it in LaTeX, and told me that this template will serve me well for the rest of my life. 20 years later and I still use on the regular!
Side note: my dad—to this day—still feels like a failure for using LaTeX; as he once put it: Real scholars use TeX.
I think many a scientific journal requires LaTeX for submissions since it allows them to simply apply their own style to it (some will even provide their templates).
I always felt like failing to move to LaTeX from my own set of macros in Plain TeX mostly because I had my own stuff for ToC generation, code snippet syntax highlighting and cross-page continuation, and image embedding that I felt lazy to learn LaTeX.