I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins.

[srdas@mastodon.online]

@vicgrinberg You have any idea how long it too me to not type 2 spaces after a period in Word?!

[dimpase@mathstodon.xyz]

@vicgrinberg looking back, I cannot help noticing that the next stage is to keep the TeX versions of a text in a VCS (e.g. git) and only look at the changes (not looking through the whole text all over again) when co-authors send you an update.

Then (in my case) one gets annoyed when co-authors needlessly re-format the whole text, rendering looking at the changes much less straightforward. (And the last stage for me was a serious burnout ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

[aneel@mefi.social]

@mxk @vicgrinberg Warning: this is also true of welding

[tessarakt@mastodon.social]

@vicgrinberg The textbook by my Echtzeitsysteme prof was apparently typeset in Word or whatever. Oh my did that look crappy ...

[sci_photos@troet.cafe]

@vicgrinberg ️
@sim

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud oh Knuth himself clearly mentions this as a viable strategy, don't worry, it's nothing to be ashamed of. But only do that when the text is FINAL

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@oblomov @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
Do it when the text is "final_reallyfinal_v2.2_done_corr3_edits.tex"

[deadda7a@chaos.social]

@mxk It is true and my life is ruined @vicgrinberg

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@jannem @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud

I guess using git for source tracking and collaboration is a bit too much still 8-D

[jannem@fosstodon.org]

@oblomov @vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw @knud
I did use git for my papers. It's a godsend! Check in every new revision as you write. Edited versions from your coauthors go into a branch with their name before being merged into main.

Highly recommend.

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@mxk @vicgrinberg Teach a person languages and they will suffer from seeing bad machine translations for life