Sarah and others,
Sorry to harp on about this, but for papers there is *nothing*, in my view,
that compares to LaTeX. It's like writing HTMl type code. it looks like this:
\documentclass[a4,11pt]{article}
% this says the document is on a4 paper 11pt font and is an article
\title{Mathematics: how and what to speak\\a discussion of non-speech sound}
\author{D. Fitzpatrick}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{introduction}
text goes here
\section{Previous work}
\subsection{the AsTeR system}
in \cite{raman:94} we learn of a system which depicts mathematics (and indeed
LaTeX generally) using a DEC-Talk speech synthesiser whose speech parameters
are carefully altered to reflect the content and formatting it contains.
\subsection{Mathgeni}
\section{conclusion}
\end{document
Now all of your references are contained in a separate bibliography and you
just include it. You run the text through a piece of software and it produces
PDF output. On mac, MacTex is a superb piece of software for doing this, and
Bibdesc is great for organising references.
By changing the style file you use, the citations appear in the document
differently. For example, if you use the file necessary for publication in
Springer's lecture notes in computer science they appear as [1], whereas in
other publications they appear like [Raman1994]. the \cite{} command is still
used, it's just a different style file that controls how things appear in the
final output.
If you have a lot of papers to write, and you have the time, I'd strongly
encourage you to invest a bit in looking into this. You'll still need a
sighted person to look at the resulting output as LaTeX can be slightly
unpredictable where it puts things like tables, figures etc but I find that my
formatting is a lot more consistent when I use this.
All the best,
Dónal
On 2 Feb 2013, at 21:31, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
> We'll see what happens. it was unflrunite this teacher was sopicky it was
> ridiculous. lol! I'll keep that option on mind for future picky teachers. lol!
>
> but first I need to learn pages as I use IText which is good but the headers
> and footers don't' work at all. lol!
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Sarah,
>>
>> We made an APA format template which I can send you, if you like.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2 Feb 2013, at 18:10, Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> How good is pages in regards to running headers. and can you format the
>>> first one to be 1 line down and the all others to be at the top of the page
>>> like they should be? I've heard wonderful podcasts on pages but having
>>> never used it I can't comment.
>>>
>>> Can I easily with minimal frustrations write a 7 page paper and do well at
>>> it, not in writing but in formatting and running headers and stuff. This is
>>> the APA format we are talking about here btw.
>>>
>>
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