Yesss!!! I know lots of people, especially in math, physics, engineering and computational biology have been yearning for this for a while. And, starting today, you can submit manuscripts to PLoS ONE in LaTeX. Read the formatting instructions carefully, then submit.
The first article submitted in LaTeX was the High-Resolution Map of Science one last week, featured today in New York Times.
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Back before my now-ended blogging hiatus, the server machinery that keeps ScienceBlogs running was not so snazzy as it is now. Now it's running a WordPress implementation that includes LaTeX support. LaTeX is a free environment for (among other things) typesetting mathematics.
I'm teaching introductory E&M this term, so it's kind of fun to play around with silly applications of Coulomb's Law. For example, let's imagine that gravity suddenly switched off, but we wanted to keep the Earth in its orbit.
"Common food wrappers contain hidden rubber proteins that could trigger allergic reactions in up to 3.5million Britons some of them fatal, a study has shown."
I use equations quite a bit. What I have been doing is writing the equations in LaTeX and then taking a screen capture of the output. I think this makes nice looking equations, but it sure takes a while.
Everybody --- I mean everybody, whether they write math or not --- would be well-served by writing papers in LaTeX.
No argument there -- but alas, in this case it all gets munged into one of the Microsoft formats anyway. What's worse, graphics get shoehorned into bitmaps instead of being vector forms (another side-effect of the MSWord shoehorn.)
Ah, well. Maybe someday.
Ecologist: word ;)
Latex is so incredibly useful especially when resubmitting. And don't get me started on sweave - no more typos in tables, all quant results straight from the data, and FREE
This is fantastic news. LaTeX is my favorite method of writing papers, and I always felt like journals would be well-served by accepting manuscripts in this format. It should make things easier for them, since all they have to do (for the most part) is apply the appropriate style file and perhaps extract/convert it for HTML display.
Oh Jason, if only it really were that simple.
This is good news; a right step for an open access journal.
An open access journal would be awesome! This is absolutely fantastic news. Thanks, Latex is extremely helpful!
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