[nfbcs] LaTeX [was "Re: Computer science mentors?"]

[Mike Gorse]

I agree that there are probably going to be things that students will be 
expected to pick up on their own. For instance, my college didn't, say, 
have a class to teach Unix, but knowing it was required for various 
classes. Professors may have given basic guidance as needed, and everyone 
was in the same boat, in terms of needing to learn it if they didn't know 
it already. I probably could have got my BS degree without ever learning 
LaTeX, using MS Word to write papers, except that I had 
accessibility-related reasons for at least needing to be able to read it 
and also rarely used Windows.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Jack Heim via nfbcs wrote:

> Just to be clear, I didn't say all students are expected to know latex. Lots 
> of students have no need for latex. My point was that I think it is probably 
> typical for students who need to use latex to be expected to pick  it up on 
> their own.  But even that might be different in other schools.