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[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's basically ubiquitous in academia

You mean STEM. In the humanities we do just fine without, tyvm.

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

IDK dude. My sister is doing master's in Philosophy. She uses LaTeX, and so do most others in her batch.

ok well to be fair philosophers will also fuck shit up just to make a point. So i'm not sure how fair that is.