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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!

Comments closed — Trackbacks closed RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Friday, March 31, 2006, at 17:50 by mote. Filed in computer science, General, research.

2 Comments

  1. Amelia

    How did you know!

    Posted on 20-Apr-06 at 23:00 | Permalink
  2. Dude

    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 13:55 | Permalink