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- From: ps296au@sdcc4.ucsd.edu (Steven Cobb)
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- Subject: Re: Looking for a word processing software
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 06:49:36 GMT
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- In article <C0Gu0H.7LI@news.cs.andrews.edu> adap@edmund.cs.andrews.edu (Edsel Adap) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan06.205503.2004@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> shorio@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Shigenori Horio) writes:
- >>Hi, I am looking for the word processing software to write my masters thesis
- >>on my Amiga 3000. Since my paper is going to have many math equations, I need
- ...
- >>I think my options are:
- >>
- >>1. PageStream
- ...
- >>2. Amiga Tex
- >> I have never used Tex program. Writing more than 100 pages document in
- >>Tex is going to be hell.
- >
- >Amiga Tex is my suggestion for you. It wont be that bad writing 100 page
- >document in Tex. The hardest part is setting up the page to make it look
- >the way you want it to look, but you only do that in the beginning of the
- >document and not very many times within the document.
- ...
- I'll toss in another vote for AmigaTeX. What you want to do is
- exactly what TeX is made for. It actually won't be dificult to "set
- it up" like you want it to look because you won't have to. I am
- certain that somewhere in the univerty there is a predefined thesis
- style to use with LaTeX. You won't have to think about it at all.
- This is especially true for equatins - I've seen so many WYSISYG
- equations (that peaple have spent hours trying to arange and size
- things) that look really goofy. With TeX or LaTeX it's either
- perfect, or it's wrong. with even a _little_ practice, you can be
- whipping out sexy (in the eye of the beholder) equations with out
- thinking about it. Anyone who can balance paren's and brackets will
- do splendidly.
-
- Also, the AmigaTeX is a _great_ rendition -- the previewer is a
- dream.
-
- Good luck,
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