On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matej Cepl wrote: > etc., where Word's instability goes into author's way. However, there are > other factors where Word's inadequacy shows up -- somebody mentioned > mathematics, I would add missing support for BibTeX
Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic handles the basics well, but there are some very powerful features that EndNote and associated packages can do like create maps of references so you can identify key sources. There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am told. For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic because OpenOffice wasn't up to the bibliographic task as far as I can tell. I will probably use Beamer for my thesis defense (all my other presentations so far have been with OO Impress). It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc. I did not have the time to spend writing my own document class. In the end it is working out well, and the result looks great, but I would not recommend this approach at this point to someone who wasn't really into open source and fiddling with software. Rich
