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

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@sci_photos because it takes time and brain power (and I'm in constant lack of both, with too many things to do) & feels also useless correcting something if the other does not care and keeps doing it.

[rk@mastodon.well.com]

@mxk @vicgrinberg

Bad keming is a curse

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@vicgrinberg my t shirt is raising questions already answered by my t shirt

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/110905390639969469

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@ricci ahaha, absolutely love this!

[janhelms@rheinneckar.social]

@vicgrinberg I hate the empty faces around me whenever I say LaTeX. While they play around with Canva and Word, I use InkScape and LaTeX. And don't get me started on social media: I say Mastodon and get looked at as if I had an illness. To cut it short: Be happy about LaTeX errors, at least you have some healthy nerdy people around you.

[epicdemiologist@wandering.shop]

@mxk @vicgrinberg Teaching singers to sightread can have similar consequences.

[sci_photos@troet.cafe]

@vicgrinberg Yes, I feel that; but reading poorly formatted math takes sooo much brain power, too

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@janhelms well, it's not about being (healthy) nerdy - in my research field it's a requirement, all big astrophysics journals require the paper submissions to be in LaTeX, using their respective style files. So very different context.

[acsawdey@fosstodon.org]

@vicgrinberg relatable but never a problem I had because before I was a grad student my wife and I met while working for a book typesetting company the used TeX/LaTeX.

[dacmot@sunny.garden]

This post and comments thread are just

Thanks @vicgrinberg and all who contributed. You made my day.

[ellane@pkm.social]

@mxk …and those around them who have not yet learned typography shall be made to suffer also, via commentary from the former @vicgrinberg

[diazona@techhub.social]

@Klara @rstub @mxk @vicgrinberg 33

[echopapa@social.tchncs.de]

@vicgrinberg

would it be better if your students used Word for their papers?

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@echopapa they could not - in my field, astrophysics, all the journals require paper submissions to be in LaTeX, using their respective style files.

[ginoputrino@mastodon.social]

@vicgrinberg You need to stop. If you do it for them, they won't learn.

Ditto marking up word documents for papers - students just hit that "accept changes" button and learn nothing.

[knud@mastodon.social]

@vicgrinberg @baszoetekouw

Oh, I've never done that. But I use \-

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@ginoputrino *sigh* I love it when ppl tell me what to do... Believe me, if it's my students I'll also have a discussion with them. And you have zero idea of how or who I am as an advisor.

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@dacmot haha, glad you enjoyed! I'm definitely having fun (mostly)

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@sci_photos haha, true but only because I was taught what the properly formatted maths looks like. Oh, the lost bliss of ignorance!

[vicgrinberg@mastodon.social]

@ellane @mxk well played