"Just use Word, everyone else does. I have never heard of this latex thing, so must be just some trendy useless overengineered software that does Word's job but worse. Word can track changes just fine, and you can leave comments." proceeds to strikethrough, highlight, and inline comment everything instead of using either of those features "I want to read what you wrote, not fight technology" proceeds to email you three separate times after forgetting to attach v28 about how a graphic looks wrong because Word ate it
Dude was a micromanaging gatekeeper. My dissertation is still embargoed because he is paranoid about being scooped. Joke's on him, everything that hasn't been published is not exciting enough to meet his own metric for publishability.
Counterpoint: advisor said no.
"Just use Word, everyone else does. I have never heard of this latex thing, so must be just some trendy useless overengineered software that does Word's job but worse. Word can track changes just fine, and you can leave comments." proceeds to strikethrough, highlight, and inline comment everything instead of using either of those features "I want to read what you wrote, not fight technology" proceeds to email you three separate times after forgetting to attach v28 about how a graphic looks wrong because Word ate it
wait, your advisor looks at your work?
Dude was a micromanaging gatekeeper. My dissertation is still embargoed because he is paranoid about being scooped. Joke's on him, everything that hasn't been published is not exciting enough to meet his own metric for publishability.