I think in my senior year of high school, my AP Physics teacher mentioned LaTeX and I thought it was cool so I started doing my lab reports in it. Then I obnoxiously typeset all my undergrad philosophy papers in, like, ugh, Hoefler Text.
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Replying to @plaidfinch
I would always get remarks from professors about how good my papers looked, and questions about how I did it. Was just Computer Modern, hah
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Replying to @thumphriees
I think it's possible I got a small grade boost from the fact that LaTeX looks Authoritative
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Replying to @plaidfinch
Absolutely and same, especially when printed (we had to print all papers back then, weird)
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Replying to @thumphriees @plaidfinch
Not that I'd say this out loud, or anywhere public like the Internet, but it's amazing how submissions which are obviously LaTeX often turn out to be the best...
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A word doc is a decent signal of crankery on vixra in that almost all cranks use word but not all word docs are written by cranks.
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If sent as a .docx, certainly. But I'm not expecting undergrads to be familiar with LaTeX quite yet...
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Replying to @edwinbrady @ReinH and
So it sounds like maybe "created in Word, but the author bothered to convert it to PDF before sending" is what you expect to see when someone is a) not in the in-group but b) doing good work regardless.
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Replying to @0x2ba22e11 @ReinH and
My coursework specifications ask for pdf so it's a bad start of you don't manage that...
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Replying to @edwinbrady
…hey have you ever had someone try to hand in a DVI file? or PostScript? :D
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Not that I can remember, but I'd probably just make an unnecessarily sarcastic remark then grade it as normal...
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Replying to @edwinbrady @0x2ba22e11
Now that I think about it I've definitely had .rtf, .md and whatever it is open office used. And all kinds of curious compression formats...
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Replying to @edwinbrady
A mathematics paper handed in as a OTF file. To display it, you install it, open a text editor, and type in "first page. second page. third page." and so on. The words "first page." are transformed into the entire content, diagrams and all, of the first page, as a HUGE ligature.
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