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Accessible Open Textbooks in Math-Heavy Disciplines - Richard Zach
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Word or LaTeX typesetting: which one is more productive? Finally, scientifically assessed - Mapping Ignorance
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| | [AI summary] This post summarizes a scientific study comparing the productivity of Microsoft Word and LaTeX for academic writing, finding Word superior for general text and tables while LaTeX excels with complex equations.
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Five reasons you should use LaTeX and five tips for teaching it | Casting Out Nines
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| | Over the weekend a minor smack-talk session opened up on Twitter between Maria Andersen and about half a dozen other math people about MathType versus $latex \LaTeX$. Maria is on record as being pro-MathType and yesterday she claimed that $latex \LaTeX$ is "not intuitive to learn". I warned her that a pro-$latex \LaTeX$ blog post...
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Emacs's counsel-M-x meets multiple cursors
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| I'm a fan of Magnar Sveen's multiple cursors Emacs implementation. It's just so fun to use and works very well with commands bound to my favorite keys...