This is how you finish your final Graduate Degree paper. No

>>33789245
do you know how privileged unchecked you sound right now?

>Weapons

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>>33789297
On a C-130 in a combat zone?

>Writing a thesis in Word

>>33789345

Depends on the degree.

What did you write yours on?

>>33789345
And? It cost me $8 under Microsoft's Home Work Program under DoD contract.

>They 'identify' as 'hungry

My sides are on the kuiper belt right now.

>>33789357

There is a couple of reasons why you might not use Word. I can't remember the name of the program, but there is one that particularly useful for scientific papers. Writers, guys in communications, drama, Film, etc. would use either FinalDraft or FadeIn. Pretty much everyone else uses Word though, that's why I want to know what that guy would use because I feel like I am aware of most Word processors out there.

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>>33789350
Bachelors of Science of Information Technology. Of course now I work in space ops controlling satellites so go fig (PS: not quite DSP but similar)

>>33789379
The scientific one is likely LaTeX; it's supposedly good but has a shitty learning curve and isn't very good for some things.

>>33789379
Word "works" (that's a throwback) and everyone supports it.

>>33789379
I would recommend Latex for anything scientific. MS Word has come leaps and bounds in formula representation but still lags far behind Latex in that and many other areas.

>>33789390

Okay, but what processor did you use?

>inb4 Google
>inb4 OpenOffice
>inb4 Wordpad
>inb4 Celtic, somehow

>>33789393
>>33789398

>LaTex

There we go, I knew it was something simple sounding. I kept wanting to say Agile like an asshole, despite knowing full that was wrong.

>>33789401
I believe it was Word 2012 at the time.

>>33789407
er sorry 2013

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I'm curious why it even matters what format was used? Any respectable institution would accept Word at a minimum.

Besides misguided preference I can't think of any technical reason any compatible format would be preferable.

>>33789429
Why would anyone want the fruits of their academic labor to be locked up in a proprietary data format? A format that code be unreadable in ten years? LaTeX source documents are plaintext and all of the software used to make sense of them is open source, providing a path to future use of the docs that you just don't have with MS Word.

>>33789393
LaTeX is like coding your paper step by step. I'd say it's more for over autistic book publishers than someone looking to get their shit done and written.

>>/pol/