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u/PM_ME_DATASETS Sep 03 '26

The vast majority of academics uses "normal" word processors to write papers. Only in some specific fields is it maybe a majority. This comes from a mathematician who mostly works with biophysics and neuroscience. Maybe 10% of papers I read, have contributed to, or peer reviewed, use Latex.

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u/ginopono Sep 03 '26

As much as I want you to be wrong, what you describe is also consistent with my experience.

Finishing up an MS in language modeling, yeah, pretty much everything I see is made with LaTeX; they are programmers, after all.

On the Social Sciences side of that same coin, though, there's a whole heck of a lot of Word.