[lbo-talk] software question

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Mar 29 10:45:56 PDT 2009


On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andy wrote:


> What do the soc/humanities people use for large documents? The standard
> for math/science is pretty much LaTeX

The most common program by far (95%) for soc/humanities books is Word. Generally (with many exceptions, of course) math/science people relate to a computer as if it were a tool bench to be modified. Soc/humanity people relate to computers like they do to a car. They don't rent a new one or rebuild the engine just to make a long trip more efficiently. They accept all annoyances as unavoidable and something to whine fruitlessly about or fix through kludges.

IME, the overwhelming majorit of soc/humanity people don't even know how to make the automatic TOC work in Word.

Michael



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