Posted by alexandra_k on February 21, 2014, at 22:02:54
In reply to Re: how far do they have to push?? » alexandra_k, posted by Partlycloudy on February 4, 2014, at 7:34:07
yeah. i invested quite a lot of time into learning to use latex... into altering a couple peoples phd thesis templates so i had a working version all of my own...
but then i balked a bit at bibtex. not sure why, because learning endnote... and word... turned out to probably be every bit as time consuming as getting bibtext up off the ground would have been.
oh yeah... it is because computer support people on campus will support you if you are using microsoft products (on the university owned pc's primarily) but also a little bit on your own (say mac) laptop... but they won't / can't help you if you use other things. so i... decided not to risk it. because i wasn't located someplace where there were enough people around who could fix stuff for me (e.g., maths department people voluntarily helping me fix permissions to get minion pro working)... and while i will invest a lo tof my own time in trying to figure stuff out i am a dumb *ss when it comes to computers and i really don't know anything.
and because enough people (in philosophy anyway) use word. so they want you to send them word documents for them to put word comments on. journals wand you to send them word files etc, too. so.. there isn't really any avoiding it.
i just don't understand why instead of investing in computer support people learning systems that they need to continually update their knowledge in (e.g., because the systems are incessantly changing without getting better but just for the sake of change, for the sake of sales, for the sake of people needing to do new training courses on how to use etc etc etc) ... why don't they get the computer support people learning classic systems... then actually doing useful stuff that only needs to be done once.
why don't journals all take the SAME F*CK*NG FORMAT. preferably plain text that doesn't corrupt.
the world is... overwhelming.
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