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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part