[Nottingham] Bibliographic software

[Robert Hart]

Yeah. seems like we're all writing up theses..

I'm writing my thesis using LaTeX, and therefore using bibtex for
references (via pybliographer, which is quite nice)

I've used LaTeX before a little bit, but I know people who have made the
plunge and learnt LaTeX solely for the purpose of writing a thesis.

Get Leslie Lamport's "Latex - A Document Preparation System" out of the
library and have a read.

Not really used OO, but Word pissed me off something rotten the last
time I tried to write a long document in it. Only thing I (occasionally)
miss is the grammar checker.

Rob


On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:02, Martin wrote:
> Iain Moppett wrote:
> > Join the club: I too am thesis writing and I'm ashamed to say I'm
> > having to use the workround of writing everything in OOW, and
> > occasionally reinserting the unformatted references from Endnote in
> > Windows ({author, year, #no}).  The only software I could find was
> > for Tex. ---
> 
> Take a look at using a simple TEXT editor and LaTeX to format your 
> thesis. For something large like thesis bashing, LaTeX is much faster 
> than trying to do everything WYSIWIG. You can get your words and refs 
> in, mark where graphics should go, and then let the computer do all the 
> hard formatting tasks for you. There are previewers to let you see how 
> it looks at any time. You get text-book quality (or better) results.
> 
> 
> For one example, 'data entry' took a 'long' time. Formatting and 
> tweaking was completed in less than two days, including refs.
> 
> There's various support for refs included. The indexing and glossary 
> stuff are nice also.
> 
> It even ran on an old 233MHz machine (:-))
> 
> 
> OK, so I'll recommed the LaTeX (non-WYSIWIG) route.
> 
> (I've still got the specials for a customised Nottingham format.)
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> Martin
-- 
Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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