Re:The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor
by BeetleB on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:34PM
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My advisor was a physicist, and a Fellow of too many societies (IEEE, IoP, APS, etc).
He did not know LaTeX. Most of his papers probably were in LaTeX, as his students knew it. But I remember multiple papers he "authored" in Word, because that's what the student preferred.
I was in a top 10 school (in physics and engineering), and I can assert that the fraction of physics faculty who did not know TeX/LaTeX was at least a quarter, and could be as high as 50%.
All the major physics journals would accept Word submissions.
He did not know LaTeX. Most of his papers probably were in LaTeX, as his students knew it. But I remember multiple papers he "authored" in Word, because that's what the student preferred.
I was in a top 10 school (in physics and engineering), and I can assert that the fraction of physics faculty who did not know TeX/LaTeX was at least a quarter, and could be as high as 50%.
All the major physics journals would accept Word submissions.
It's not at all unusual.