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Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 10, 2024, 08:53:52 AMJust a chunk of T1 today.

Did my chunk.

Most journals I Have been submitting to recently ask for both a .docx AND a PDF version of the main manuscript...

Quote from: secundem_artem on May 10, 2024, 03:07:07 PMSomebody somewhere is making a mint selling keffiyehs to  white college kids who didn't even know what those things were 6 weeks ago.

Brando in "The Wild One" [1953]:

"Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?"
"Whaddya got?"

Somebody somewhere is making a mint selling keffiyehs to  white college kids who didn't even know what those things were 6 weeks ago.

In support of an opinion upthread from Wahoo: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/protest-effectiveness-research/678292/

Quote from: methodsman on May 07, 2024, 02:04:13 PM.   And, no, contrary to popular belief, the growth in administrators is not the cause of most
institutions' demise. 
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Maybe, but it sure doesn't help. Here is a recent Atlantic piece: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/no-one-knows-what-universities-are-for/ar-BB1m2mbD

.docx or a pdf file, the latter if you want formatting and tables to display accurately.

We allow one repeat, a third attempt only with special permission.
But honestly, if a student fails once* they almost always fail again.

*Unless there was a big disruption/something outside of their control (e.g. medical crisis) that is now resolved.

Quote from: apl68 on May 03, 2024, 08:06:55 AMThe Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester.  As much as anything, this is a love letter to the Oxford English Dictionary.  The print version of the OED, which I recall using some in grad school, is an awe-inspiring work.  Multiple, vast, well-produced volumes, filled with hundreds of thousands of words, each with a painstaking etymology and numerous quotes tracing its assorted definitions and shades of meaning down through the centuries.  Though the first edition was not completed until the 1920s, it was in origin a fantastically ambitious Victorian project. 

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Sounds like this is a retitling of The Professor and the Madman which I enjoyed a while back!

Yes, I always use .docx. Earlier versions of Word are compatible with later ones, but not necessarily vice versa (some fonts, in particular, may not exist in previous versions, and when the document converts to the earlier version you can get weird stuff. Especially if you use non-Latin characters or mathematical symbols.

Or you can send a pdf, which will always display correctly.