[olug] Abiword footnotes/Latex plug

[Chris Garrity]

For a Ph.D. thesis LaTeX should be a slam-dunk --- you could have the 
document structure built in 1--2 days and then spend all your time on 
it's content. I wouldn't even screw with a graphical LaTeX frontend, 
just get Leslie Lamports LaTeX Guide and you'll LaTeX'ing in 1/2 day. 
For Linux, use teTeX. For Windows: use MiKTeK. If you wan't to get 
started in the lest amount of time, install MiKTeK and Gvim on Windows 
and you be rolling (just learn how to use vim, or emacs, because these 
are really your only two choices). Knowing vim, or emacs, is an absolute 
prereq. (imo) for doing/knowing anything (relative) useful.

http://www.miktex.org
http://www.vim.org


Tanya Loughead wrote:

>More on the whole word processor debate:
>
>I suppose that which word processor one uses is related to the task at one's
>hands.... {I'm writing my Ph.D. dissertation.}
>I was immediately attracted to Abi-Word because of its simplicity.  (Not
>surprisingly) I come from using Microsoft word, and the AbiWord commands are
>very similar.  I tried to use StarOffice, but that program is so big, that
>the possibility for problems and bugs is likewise "big."  (I am still
>waiting for feedback from Sun on a major problem that I am having with
>StarOffice.)
>SO--
>Here's a question to everyone on the list: Given that one may only need text
>capabilities, which Linux-based word processor do you find to be the best?
>It seems that everyone is casting votes for LaTeX thus far.... is that the
>general consensus?
>Thanks for the input,
>Tanya
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Dave Burchell [mailto:burchell at inebraska.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:29 PM
>>To: olug at olug.org
>>Subject: Re: [olug] Abiword footnotes/Latex plug
>>
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>>I second that endorsement of LaTeX.  Plus, if you are not "geeky"
>>enough yet to learn all the LaTeX tricks, pick up LyX
>>(http://www.lyx.org), a swell WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean)
>>word processor that acts as a front end for LaTeX.  It is free and I
>>have found it to be easy to use, stable, and full of features (such as
>>tables, footnotes, end notes, tables of contents).  And everything you can
>>do with LaTeX you can do with LyX, because you can include LaTeX
>>snipits in
>>your LyX document.
>>
>>That said, I like keeping documents in XML rather than LaTeX if they
>>are to be exchanged with others and/or you want to publish the
>>documents in a variety of formats.  I have an XML version of my resume,
>>for example, and I have a stylesheet that produces a fancy LaTeX
>>version of it, another for plain text, and another for HTML.  I can
>>update the XML document, type "make", and generate text, HTML, dvi,
>>PostScript, and PDF versions, no sweat.
>>
>>Mike Hostetler says:
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>>>>As for me, I'm still just trying to get my word processor on
>>>>        
>>>>
>>Red Hat up and
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>>>>running.  Anyone know if there are footnote and thesaurus plugins  for
>>>>Abiword yet?  I only heard that they were "on the way."
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I think they are to be implemented after tables are . . . so don't wait
>>>for them.
>>>
>>>This is a little geeky, too, but LaTeX rocks on things like footnotes,
>>>Works Cited, etc.  The very intial curve is a little steep, but after
>>>that it's pretty easy.  And all Linux distros come with it.  To learn, I
>>>just did a Google for "Latex tutorial" and read through the first couple
>>>of hits.
>>>
>>>good luck,
>>>
>>>-- mikeh
>>>
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