Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application
Rhys Hardwick <rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk> writes:
> 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
> all good word processors, but there must be a program that is specifically
> for the porpus of writing these types of things.
>
> If anyone knows of anything like this, that would be fantastic!
In academic circles it's common to use Tex/Latex. This is also the
format required by most journals, if you plan to publish. A GUI
frontend like lyx might help you to get started.
Unix geeks on the other hand prefer *roff, i.e. groff/troff. While
it's probably a little easier to learn than Tex you might have trouble
convincing publishers to accept *roff input. Also, there seems to be
no nice GUI for that. Late Richard W. Stevens used to write his books
in *roff though, so anybody using it presumably follows a good
tradition (like Rich Teer did with his recent "Solaris Systems
Programming" volume :) )
Regards, Bruno.
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