[Techtalk] Applications for writing dissertation

[Stephanie Boyd]

Hi,
I have a very large (10,000 word) written piece to write for university
early next year.  As I have switched to using Linux full-time, I don't
really want to use windows if at all possible.  I do have openoffice
installed, but tbh it's so like Word that I find it almost equally
irritating (my hands are now 'trained' into using emacs, which adds to my
frustration when using _any_ wordprocessing package).  Anyway, it has been 
suggested that I could use a mark-up language such as DocBook or LaTex, but
unfortunately, as none of my friends actually create documents, they don't
really know whether or not it would be suitable for what I want to do.

Basically here's what I need:
It's an economics dissertation, so whatever I use must be able to deal well
with equations.  The ability to either generate graphs or for me to easily
insert graphs is also important.  Ideally, I'd like to be able to save in
mutliple formats, but I must as least be able to print to a postscript file.

I don't know if I'm asking for the moon-on-a-stick here, but if any of you
have opinions as to what would be my best bet, I'd be most grateful.  I've
got a couple of smaller documents in the iterim period, so I should be able
to try more than one thing, should multiple packages fit my requirements.

       	    Regards,
	    	 Stephanie

-- 
Stephanie Boyd				http://www.ixtab.org.uk/slb

'The computer continued, brash and cheery, as if it were selling detergent.'
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