monkey's uncle

In a note sent out to the PLoS ONE editorial board, managing editor Pete Binfield announced today that PLoS ONE will now be accepting submissions typeset in LaTeX.  I knew that this was in the works, but it’s nice to know it is for real now.

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I do my absolute best to minimize the amount of time Word is open on my computer desktop.  Alas, when one collaborates widely, particularly with non-technical people, it is a necessary evil. In these collaborations, I am typically doing either statistical or modeling work (or both). This often means that I am generating objects in [...]

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This is turning into a series, now isn’t it? Yesterday, I wrote a post on using tex2word to convert $\LaTeX$ documents to .doc format.  This works well but carries with it the major disadvantage that you need to run it using windows.  In my copious spare time, I thought I would explore some of the [...]

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Well, what do you know?  PLoS ONE actually has a very handy webpage on converting LaTeX documents that has appeared since the last time I checked!  Nice tip for BibTeX too…

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I recently joined the editorial board of PLoS ONE.  To facilitate rapid turn-around of accepted manuscripts, PLoS ONE has some fairly rigid requirements for the submission of electronic files.  One of the most unfortunate restrictions is that the journal does not accept manuscripts prepared using LaTeX.  This is a shame because PLoS ONE has published some excellent papers in [...]

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