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Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 17:14:31 2019 No.10276524 View Reply Original Report

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>learn LaTeX over break
>lab exclusively uses word
>turns out there are not good tex to docx converters
you sons of bitches

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:15:10 No.10276527 Report

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Yeah but you can learn how to use Word is 5 minute.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:17:38 No.10276534 Report

Quoted By: >>10276553 >>10276612

Write your shit in word and then typeset in latex for final version, it's what I'm planning to do for my thesis.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:21:45 No.10276546 Report

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>>10276524
>what is ctrl-c ctrl -v

Do like 10 min of manual labor and you will have magically converted your word document to latex

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:21:59 No.10276548 Report

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>>10276524
>>lab exclusively uses word
What?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:23:07 No.10276551 Report

Quoted By: >>10276562 >>10277495

>>10276548
only allowed to submit .docx files

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:24:04 No.10276553 Report

Quoted By: >>10279371

>>10276534
>for my thesis
I really hope you're planning on converting before getting to write any equations or include any citations and references

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:26:53 No.10276561 Report

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>>10276524
Just write the same shit twice in both word and $\LaTeX$

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:27:28 No.10276562 Report

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>>10276551
For homework?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:28:50 No.10276565 Report

Quoted By: >>10276568 >>10276569

>>10276562
for publications

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:36:15 No.10276568 Report

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>>10276565
>write thesis and publications entirely in Word
>all plots in Excel
>vector figures pasted as images into word
>everything looks like shit
>get PhD and all papers published in the journals they were submitted to (impact factor around 3)
#yolo

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:37:11 No.10276569 Report

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>>10276565
It's time to swap uni.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 17:57:00 No.10276612 Report

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>>10276534
what the fuck is even the point of using latex then

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 20:01:12 No.10276924 Report

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>>10276524
>there are not good tex to docx converters
there are no good anything to docx converters.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 20:02:58 No.10276927 Report

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>>10276924
The Microsoft doc to docx converter is pretty good

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 20:18:49 No.10276957 Report

Quoted By: >>10276963

just convert the resulting pdf to docx? Probably easiest, but I've never had to do something as dumb as this so I don't know

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 07 Jan 2019 20:21:52 No.10276963 Report

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>>10276957
that's a good idea but there are some random glitches in the formatting.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 00:45:29 No.10277495 Report

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>>10276551
>use latex
>convert PDF to jpegs
>paste jpegs into word pages

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Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 01:01:21 No.10277531 Report

Quoted By: >>10277610 >>10279286 >>10279407

>>10277495
>anon why can't i make edits to your word doc?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 01:03:27 No.10277536 Report

Quoted By: >>10277607

I do the following:

>Write everything in late
>Copy paste into Google docs
>Use this latex add-on that I downloaded to convert everything
>Download as docx

That simple. Try it out

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 01:50:49 No.10277607 Report

Quoted By: >>10277621

>>10277536
>Use this latex add-on that I downloaded
what latex add-on

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 01:53:01 No.10277610 Report

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>>10277531
Wew, if that's real.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 01:53:37 No.10277611 Report

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>>10276524
I'm a masochist so I use InDesign for typesetting my work, I only use LaTeX to typeset equations as inline PDFs. Once you do a lot of typographical design you realize that LaTeX is dogshit for anything else but equations

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 02:01:37 No.10277621 Report

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>>10277607
Idk. Go into Google docs and search for latex in the add-ons section. I use it just for math equations so idk if it will suit your needs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 03:19:32 No.10277751 Report

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>>10276524
at the end of the day i found out that it's easier to try to convert the output pdf to a doc instead of the tex file itself

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 04:11:45 No.10277894 Report

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>>10276524
You guys laugh all you want, but...
back in the day (MS-DOS), I worked as a tech in a computer retail store. I moonlighted as a consultant. A real estate office hired me to help them set up their new PCs. THe boss wanted them all to have them so they could prepare their documents in.... got this...

Edlin.

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Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 04:16:56 No.10277908 Report

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>>10276524
You guys laugh all you want, but...
back in the day (MS-DOS), I worked as a tech in a computer retail store. I moonlighted as a consultant. A real estate office hired me to help them set up their new PCs. The boss wanted the employees to prepare their documents in.... get this... Edlin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 04:58:54 No.10277989 Report

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>>10276524
So wouldn't that mean that your wasted your time and it's perfectly acceptable to use word?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 05:11:21 No.10278021 Report

Quoted By: >>10278120

Wait you are not supposed to write papers on word?
Redpill me on the programs I need to use for research in general

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 06:00:27 No.10278120 Report

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>>10278021
word and endnote/mendeley
latex is for hipsters

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 06:07:31 No.10278139 Report

Quoted By: >>10279363

switch to a better lab

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Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 07:12:22 No.10278241 Report

Quoted By: >>10279239

>He fell for the LaTeX meme.
Formatting documents by hand, why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 16:41:35 No.10279239 Report

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>>10278241
>Formatting documents by hand, why?
isn't that what you do in a word processor?

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Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 16:58:01 No.10279276 Report

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>>10276524
Imagine going to a McUniversity that doesn't accept pdf files

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 17:00:51 No.10279286 Report

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>>10277531
wouldn’t you be justified in euthanizing them at this point though?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 17:38:35 No.10279358 Report

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>>10276569
this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 17:41:07 No.10279363 Report

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>>10278139
this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 17:45:05 No.10279371 Report

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>>10276553
I'm going to leave the citations in shorthand and use bibtex for the final, and what equations I will have will be easy to translate

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 08 Jan 2019 17:56:23 No.10279407 Report

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>>10277531
You cant verify that data is exponential just by eyeballing it anyway

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 06:57:48 No.10281229 Report

Quoted By: >>10281411 >>10282003

>>10276524
Use pandoc
Or better yet, submit a PDF and tell them to fuck off, youre adults, docx is shit and unprofessional unlike patrician PDFs

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 08:23:12 No.10281308 Report

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>>10276524
Use overleaf. Or different Tex convertor

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 08:26:15 No.10281310 Report

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>>10276524
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX_pThh7z8
I'll just leave this here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:10:19 No.10281407 Report

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>>10276524
>>lab exclusively uses word
Yikes.
I have yet to have a course where PDF wasn't a requirement for handins.

>>turns out there are not good tex to docx converters
Of course there aren't.

>>10277611
>I use InDesign for typesetting my work
What is your work then?
The point of LaTeX is to create good looking documents without spending effort to format everything, it is practically the opposite of InDesign.

>Once you do a lot of typographical design
Obviously, it is a software made to NOT do typographical design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:14:51 No.10281411 Report

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>>10281229
Kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:20:53 No.10281417 Report

Quoted By: >>10281420

>>10279239
No, use templates, type/insert contents. No reason to type control characters or change styling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:22:25 No.10281420 Report

Quoted By: >>10281439

>>10281417
Try inserting a float without aligning it by hand...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:47:58 No.10281439 Report

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>>10281420
MathType, or other plugins. You do have click the align button though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 10:56:31 No.10281443 Report

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>not using xelatex

kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 16:59:02 No.10282003 Report

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>>10281229
pandoc sucks big dicks

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Anonymous Wed 09 Jan 2019 22:02:02 No.10282739 Report

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i got memed

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