Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:34:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Rhys Hardwick wrote:
> >Hey there everyone.
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone knew of a good open-source program for writing
> >Theses, Dissertations, Journal articles, etc. Open office, AbiWord etc are
[...]
>
> What you want is LaTeX. However, it is not a word processor in the
> traditional sense of the word. It is a typesetting system (LaTeX is
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> Also, if you are a KDE user, the kile package provides an excellent
> environment (or so I have heard).
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That's true - it's excellent, and povides very useful latex
documentation too. But if you don't KDE, texmaker (on which kile was
based) does almost everything that kile does in a generic X way. (The
only serious lack I have found in Texmaker, is bracket highlighting -
and I almost always lose or add a brace somewhere :-( ). See
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
--
richard
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