Hello,
Tobias Wolf wrote:
today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a
good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt.
It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the
syntax and the focus on PDF output (I never used DVI before) et
Ask somebody in your field who is really good at TeX for the LaTeX
sources of his/her thesis,
and use them as templates. Spend as little time as possible thinking
about
layout and as much as you can about content.
You speak the truth. I really want to avoid that. I do have solid
experience
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:41:00AM +0300, Ville Voipio wrote:
One of the mixed blessings (=curses) brought about by computers
is that now you need to be an academic writer, a typesetter, and
a graphic artist at the same time. At this point the number
of should-knows explodes.
[snip]
Dear NTG-context denizens,
today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a
good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt.
It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the
syntax and the focus on PDF output (I never used DVI before) et cetera
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:45 pm, Tobias Wolf wrote:
Dear NTG-context denizens,
today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a
good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt.
It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the
syntax and
Actually your comment here might suggest how far we have to go then, as
I'd consider my wishlist a very roughly stated but really quite minimal
set of requirements for academic writing.
Well, if you drop the RTF part, then your wishlist is not that
difficult. However, there are some
Ville Voipio wrote:
I am not saying HTML is bad and PDF good. HTML is extremely good for
many purposes. Wiki is a good example of this, and so are many web
pages. But as HTML is not necessarily a good form for a book,
concentrating on PDF is probably a better idea.
I hadn't thought of half
or an XML dtd (tbook or DocBook?) plus appropriate tools. I'm ruling out
Word (having wrestled with it at work), and am reluctant to use anything
similar like OpenOffice. I have used LaTeX for some things in the past.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago (writing my PhD thesis). I
Hi,
I'm returning to graduate study after a few years out in the workplace.
I'm a bit rusty on what good stuff there is out there for academic
writing, and after a bit of research I've come up with: ConTeXt, LaTeX
or an XML dtd (tbook or DocBook?) plus appropriate tools. I'm ruling out
Word
