Re: [tlug] Poll: OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

[Bruno Raoult <braoult@example.com>]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Stuart Luppescu <slu@example.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-05-18 at 17:03 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> The Law of the Excluded Middle doesn't apply to taste.  If you have a
>> taste for beauty in mathematics, you use LaTeX.  If you don't, you
>> probably don't need it, although IMO the documents of people who use
>> LaTeX are more beautiful and more readable than documents produced by
>> people who don't.
>
> 1) I wrote my thesis using the university's thesis style. I didn't have
> to worry about formatting at all. When I turned it in, the dissertation
> secretary inspected it and declared it acceptable. The same time I was
> submitting mine, another student was submitting his 500-page thesis in
> biochemistry, which he wrote using MS Word. His bottom margins were 1/4"
> too narrow so he had to go back and reformat and reprint all 3 copies.

Oh... May you tell us what the expected style? And how the other student was
able to print it after all?

br.

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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.