Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this

• 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.

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• anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  By requiring docx format in the end?

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  • 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.

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    • anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unfortunately not my case nobody care here about and most documents require docx

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