Justin, I suspect your right, but since these papers are turned in
electronically, I suspect I'll have to turn them in as Microsoft Word
files. If I could convert Latex to Word without any issues, I might
just go that route. The big deal with APA formatting is it must be
double spaced, not a problem in Word, but the reference page has to
have the first part of the reference against the left margin and
indented something like five spaces. THe problem in WOrd as far as I
am concerned is knowing exactly where the text is. I got dinged for
this despite my best efforts in trying to get the text where it should
be. Thanks for the idea, it is certainly one worth exploring.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi Scott
I've tried open office a bit and it looks to me like you'd probably
have better luck with microsnot word. Have you tried nisus writer
express? I'm not exactly familiar with all the requirements for
writing an APA paper, but if the main place where you are losing
points is in the bibliography, an if the only matter is
indentations, you might just try writing the bib separately in
textedit. It won't do any smart tag stuff without you knowing and
you could just manually format each entry with whatever it requires.
That said it sounds like you'd be doing a lot more work than yu
need. If you are seriously going to be writing papers like this for
years to come, it might be worth the time invested in learning how
to typeset with LaTeX. I am like 98 percent confident that LaTeX
could make formatting an APA paper a trivial process if you don't
mind a few lines of code here and there. Again, sure it may not be
easy in the beginning, but if you are going to be writing papers
like this for a number of years, it might be worth it in the long run.
Regards
Justin Harford
