Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 09:04 schrieb Damir Perisa: > what is actually the most reliable way to write an important, long > (>200 pages) document (like a master thesis)? i started writing plain > text files and now i'm thinking if i should play again with latex or > maybe learn docbook or even try to trust ms word or openoffice to > work reliably. previous experience with any monster-wordprocessor > (like word or writer) was very negative with huge documents (up to 50 > pages it works fine, but if you keep adding text, some dark magic > starts happening). > also here any input welcome ;)
LaTeX, no question. It's plain text, so no black magic happens behind your back. It produces very high quality output, so your thesis will look good, too. Most research papers are written in LaTeX, so your result will look professional, without you having to worry too much about layout and fonts, etc. Just select the right document class, tweak the margins a little and you are done. Learning LaTeX isn't all that difficult. In the end there are maybe only 10-15 commands that you really use, and there is very good documentation out there on the web. - Askadar _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
