On The Success of LaTeX

I suspect that the success of LaTeX–and its ubiquity as a format for thesis-writing–is in part due to the fact that learning its arcane subtleties is a wonderful source of procrastination.

What a glorious escape from having do to actual paper-writing!

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This entry (permalink) was posted on Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 5:50 PM by mote and categorized in General, computer science, research.

Comments (2) left to “On The Success of LaTeX”

  1. Amelia wrote:

    How did you know!

    Posted on 20-Apr-06 at 11:00 pm | Permalink

  2. Dude wrote:

    This was absolutely true for me. I switched to Word to force myself to write rather than tinker with latex macros.

    Posted on 18-Jun-06 at 1:55 pm | Permalink

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