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Old 04-18-2014, 06:36 PM   #13
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by ballfresno View Post
This is quite interesting to me. I spend so much time trying to get my students to stop doing exactly this when writing technical articles. I have them use LaTeX which allows them to concentrate on the content and not the formatting. Journals will provide the style files which will format their articles for them to the journal standards.

But boy is it difficult to get the students to stop trying to control everything!
And those are young folks...
...now imagine trying to do it with somebody with ink in their blood!
(You'd think they'd have been poisoned by it ages ago, but still...)
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