Si tu ne crois pas à la possibilité d’un effondrement de la civilisation provoqué par les économistes, cet article de mars 2019 devrait t’en convaincre : Writing Papers in Economics Using FaKe LaTeX
▻https://legacy.farmdoc.illinois.edu/irwin/research/The_Case_for_Fake_LaTeX_public.pdf
3. FaKe LaTeX
I believe that economists who regularly use Microsoft Word face the same dilemma as I did when considering LaTeX. We love the look of papers written in LaTeX but are uncertain whether the time investment required to learn and use LaTeX on a regular basis is a reasonable trade-off. What is a rational economist to do? I thought there simply had to be a better way. After all, this is an era where there is an app for everything. Someone else out there had to be thinking the same thing. It turns out there is an alternative that satisfies my economist mindset—FaKe LaTeX documents created in Microsoft Word (written in logo form as FAKE LATEX). That is exactly how I produced the original version of this article.
Surprised? Most people are. One can achieve something like 95% of the visual appearance of native LaTeX documents with a one-time investment of an hour or less.
The idea of “faking” LaTeX in Word actually has been around for a while, something of an underground phenomenon discussed online in a few blog posts (e.g., Ticoneva, 2009; Simon, 2010; Huang, undated). Combining these online sources with my own trial-and-error experimentation, I developed a “how to manual” for producing FaKe LaTeX documents. The following two sections present the steps for creating FaKe LaTeX documents in Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Word for Mac, respectively.
