Why do many CS students and researchers write their publications with LaTeX although it is much heavier than wkhtmltopdf?
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3Sorry, but off topic. – Buffy Jul 31 '23 at 12:33
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@Buffy If you treat teaching and research as exclusive then yes, but if not then education should include both isn't it? – Rusi Jul 31 '23 at 18:37
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1@Buffy OTOH Research ≠ Technology for research publication. So you could call it fringe – Rusi Aug 01 '23 at 00:57
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3@risi the site is about teaching and learning. The question is not. – ctrl-alt-delor Aug 05 '23 at 20:35
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Journals, conferences want a 'house look' ie fonts, spacing, columns etc.
So they typically mandate Latex ... yes with some latitude. So they may say: For MSWord authoring use xyz, for Latex use abc. The xyz/abc specs being quite detailed.
See for example the IEEE recommended template
PS Count me among the people that suffer Latex but the html,css,JS morass is inarguably worse!
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I think this webpage on arXiv might help you get perspective on why LaTeX is valued by the academic and research community.
Then on this arXiv page you find this wording:
Our goal is to store articles in formats that are highly portable and stable over time. Currently, the best choice is TeX/LaTeX.
And when one looks at the mirror image crank website vixra.org, you notice that very few of these authors use LaTeX!
Then of course for computer scientists, LaTeX is the brainchild of the preeminent computer scientist Donald Knuth.
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