@masek bwahaha... Ok, that's a level above the TeX corrections

@sellathechemist I love when it works but I have collaborators at faculty level who still seem not to care. It hurts (I know theybare stressed and under tenure pressure, but it's not like I have tons more time...)

@echopapa it's not used in my field at all; too many formulae, even at first year student level. It's more the other way around - at some point you reach a point in your career when you have to deal with administration and then they torture you with Word documents.

@sim @sci_photos I honestly think my generation wasn't that different (at least in my little corner, where our journals all require to submit latex files using their own stylefiles) - it's just that I had an advisor who has typesetting as a hobby and learned a bit too well

@space_flounder @Klara @mxk

@ellane @mxk well played

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

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

@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.

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

@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.

@ricci ahaha, absolutely love this!

@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.

@ShadSterling I don't think this would work with a technical solution since this is context dependent on what the text actually days. And there already are rules...

@hmwilker ahah, yes Or at least I get really pissy in my comments - and I have a few collaborators who are really terrible and don't even try

@baszoetekouw @knud pssst, nobody admits to this loudly...

@goldenmeanie

@mxk ahaha, this!!!

I was always upset that my PhD advisor would read printouts of my paper drafts and correct my LaTeX by hand in the margins. I mean, not even seeing the code...?

Now I'm reading paper drafts by my PhD students and collaborators as PDFs and also correcting their TeX code because I cannot stand wrong font for maths or wrong spaces between numbers and units. I wish I could stop, but I just can't...

It's all my PhD advisor's fault! *shakes fist in the direction of her old institute*