[Techtalk] Applications for writing dissertation

Glen Strom gstrom at eol.ca
Sun Oct 13 15:55:43 EST 2002


On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:57:34 +0100
Stephanie Boyd <slb at ixtab.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.
> 
Have a look at Lyx.

www.lyx.org


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