Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Rhys Hardwick wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a good open-source program for writing 
> Theses, Dissertations, Journal articles, etc.  Open office, AbiWord etc are 
> all good word processors, but there must be a program that is specifically 
> for the porpus of writing these types of things.

LaTeX is what you would want, but, if the learning curve seems way too
steep, you might want TeXmacs - it is WYSIWIG, it is very easy to get
started with, and is really quite functional for scientific writing. You
would probably also want to check XFig, gnuplot, etc.

Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science