If you were happy to find that the new Office 2007 equation editor is a lot more like LaTeX, and that equations didn’t look as bad in Word as before, think again.
Microsoft is pushing a proprietary markup language (OOXML) that clashes with what Nature and Science own typesetters use, so they will simply reject the paper. This might be a good time to read Dario’s own ode to the beauty of LaTeX.
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AMA citation:
Quesada J. Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK. Academic Productivity. 2007. Available at: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/leading-journals-reject-word-2007-files-zdnet-uk/. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Quesada, Jose. (2007). Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Academic Productivity Web site: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/leading-journals-reject-word-2007-files-zdnet-uk/
Chicago citation:
Quesada, Jose. 2007. Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK. Academic Productivity. http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/leading-journals-reject-word-2007-files-zdnet-uk/ (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Quesada, J 2007, Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK, Academic Productivity. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/leading-journals-reject-word-2007-files-zdnet-uk/>
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Quesada, Jose. "Leading journals reject Word 2007 files – ZDNet UK." 16 Jul. 2007. Academic Productivity. Accessed 3 Sep. 2010. <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2007/leading-journals-reject-word-2007-files-zdnet-uk/>
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July 17th, 2007 at 2:07 am
LaTeX is lovely and I set my thesis/dissertation in it. However, with the number of people who know LaTeX diminishing (and in my specific field, there is almost no-one who knows LaTeX or even what it is) it is easier to put up with Word in order to be able to collaborate with people.