By requiring docx format in the end?
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Johanno@feddit.org 1 day agoHow can they not allow LaTeX and how would they know?
anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
antimidas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Luckily not, law requires all university theses to be in an open and archival compatible format, like PDF/A. No docx allowed for publication.
anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Unfortunately not my case nobody care here about and most documents require docx
antimidas@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
It’s a university of applied sciences, they have a very low confidence in their students’ IT skills. Either that, or they lack the knowhow to create a LaTeX template. Honestly, probably both.
Theses have a certain set of requirements in the EU, like being archival-compatible and accessible. It’s easiest to fulfill those guidelines if you just require people to use a Word template and tick certain boxes when exporting the PDF/A.
I ended up using LaTeX anyway in order to join the code examples as appendices. I had to separately prove that the document still passed all the requirements though. I didn’t want to start pasting screenshots of code, as I find it unreadable. You get much better code formatting on LaTeX.