When I joined CERN in 2003, most people were either using Word or FrameMaker, th...

mrweasel · on July 19, 2022

That pretty weird. You’d assume that CERN have LaTeX templates, meaning that you could just sit down and start typing.

At university we created a template first semester, tweaked it a bit the second. After that it wasn’t something that you needed to think off. You could just start typing, run make to build a pdf if needed, and everything could just be pushed to subversion (it was 20 years ago).

So few people truly know how to use Word. Most just mess around with fonts and spacing until thinks look about right. I sure that even few is actually able to use Google Doc as anything beyond a web based Wordpad.

pjmlp · on July 19, 2022

I never saw them on my department, now documents in Word and FrameMaker lost count.

> This can be a PDF file or a Word document, in any format or lay-out that can be used by referees to evaluate your manuscript

https://www.elsevier.com/journals/results-in-physics/2211-37...