I considered ending the thread by explaining that anything which is published as a double column PDF is going to be the scariest shit you've ever read, because that means the authors know TeX, and that means they are going to take the intense suffering of using TeX out on you one way or the other. But then I thought about the poor innocent BlueSky users who are in the arts and potentially don't know what TeX is, and I thought, you know what, let them sleep a little longer.