Another update

[dracodraconis]

Most of a conference paper written. I discovered this morning that it is due the day I get back from Toronto so it absolutely must be ready for internal review by tomorrow so that it gets back in time for me to edit and submit it by Wednesday.

Also debugged the LaTeX example file helpfully supplied by the conference chair (who also happens to be on my defence committee). Seems I'm one of the few still requesting LaTeX style files for these things. After significant writing and cutting, it appears the paper will be within the 6-page deadline, although it means some applicable portions of my research will not appear in the paper. Oh well, what's there is significant and the rest can be put in the next paper (which is due on the 15th of September).

Comments

[ztrooper.livejournal.com]

Due to that UNIX shell variables course I took yesterday, I actually have some notion of what LaTeX is!

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

I first used it back in the late 80s to typeset articles for our university newspaper. It's also used extensively by mathematicians because it doesn't choke when you have pages and pages of equations and graphs.

[ms-danson.livejournal.com]

And grad students because Microsoft sucks a$$ for thesis length documents with lots of diagrams and formulas.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised few people are asking for LaTeX formats... it was the default for a conference I went to a while back, and its platform-independence makes it a great tool for publications like that.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

It depends on the conference audience. IMTC, CCECE and 3DIM all provide LaTeX scripts because they are often requested. ROSE is primarily a robotics conference and tends to get few people requesting LaTeX scripts.