Sam Heywood wrote:
>If you are going to be writing essays of a scholarly nature, then you will
>need a word-processor suitable for citing sources and quotes and for
>producing footnotes and end-notes. You will need a word-processor having
>an underline feature for citing a book. For doing footnotes you will need
>to be able to superscript numbers.
>
>I don't think there are any free word-processors having features like
>these. I have some experience with some very fine commercial DOS
>word-processors that are now very "out-dated". You might be able to procure
>the old software from second-hand sources for a very low price nowadays.
There is a free alternative, but depending on your view it might not be
very good - or even a word processor ;)
Try LaTex (pronounced la-tech), it's a rather common format and can do all
those things quoted (but might be a little hard). There are programs out
for most OS, including but not limited to W95 (never got that one to work
but it worked at two friends computers), DOS and Linux. Might require a 386
in all versions to create the file you print, but the .tex file is like a
.htm file (just that it looks much better when you print - *if* you can get
it to do the right things). Anyway, the end result is a .ps file (normally
anyway it's tex->dvi->ps).
//Bernie
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