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It's 4am. Do you know where your REVTeX is?

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From: fork...@panix.com (John Forkosh)
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Subject: It's 4am. Do you know where your REVTeX is?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 05:53:48 +0000 (UTC)
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by: John Forkosh - Fri, 21 May 2021 05:53 UTC

Somewhat off-topic:
Anybody regularly browse arxiv.org (and/or use REVTeX)?
Look at https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09341 and in particular
download its source tarball.

Who the heck calls their serious paper's .tex source (and .bbl)
4-AM-REDBULL-INDUCED-SELF-HATRED-FUELLED-WRITING-EXTRAVAGENZA.tex
especially when there are two authors to check everything
before submitting it?

At first I thought they must be using some weird template
and somehow neglected to rename its even weirder default.
But the top few lines are
% ****** Start of file apssamp.tex ******
% This file is part of the APS files in the REVTeX 4.1 distribution.
% Version 4.1r of REVTeX, August 2010
% Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 The American Physical Society.
which is a very well-established package. So I'm at a loss trying
to conjecture any theory explaining how the files got named that way.
--
John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )

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It's 4am. Do you know where your REVTeX is?	John Forkosh