Comments on: My First Forays into Typesetting with Latex http://jim.casablog.com/2006/12/04/my-first-forays-into-typesetting-with-latex/ All a man needs out of life is a place to sit ‘n’ spit in the fire. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim http://jim.casablog.com/2006/12/04/my-first-forays-into-typesetting-with-latex/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Jim Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:59:43 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/2006/12/04/my-first-forays-into-typesetting-with-latex/#comment-237 I'd say the best thing you can do is use OpenOffice to start with. OpenOffice is nice because it deals with structure better than other word processors. It forces you do deal with style and overall structure rather than formating. You set up stuff like: <h1>Chapter One</h1> <h2>Section One of chapter one</h2> Your text. Your text. <h1>Chapter Two</h1> Etc And you just write it up, blockquotes, sections etc. Afterward you hit the table of contents and it auto-generates. Also, exporting for further manipulation in either LaTeX or HTML is that much easier. After I write this all out, I checked, and Lyx, the front end I use to LaTeX, is available for windows: <a href="http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows" rel="nofollow">Link to Lyx for Windows</a> It should make creating long documents pretty easy. If you need any help, I'm more than willing to give you a hand. I’d say the best thing you can do is use OpenOffice to start with. OpenOffice is nice because it deals with structure better than other word processors. It forces you do deal with style and overall structure rather than formating.

You set up stuff like:

Chapter One

Section One of chapter one

Your text. Your text.

Chapter Two

Etc

And you just write it up, blockquotes, sections etc. Afterward you hit the table of contents and it auto-generates. Also, exporting for further manipulation in either LaTeX or HTML is that much easier.

After I write this all out, I checked, and Lyx, the front end I use to LaTeX, is available for windows:

Link to Lyx for Windows

It should make creating long documents pretty easy. If you need any help, I’m more than willing to give you a hand.

]]> By: Sylvia http://jim.casablog.com/2006/12/04/my-first-forays-into-typesetting-with-latex/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Sylvia Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:37:49 +0000 http://jim.casablog.com/2006/12/04/my-first-forays-into-typesetting-with-latex/#comment-236 Hi Jim, Best wishes to Laura for her dissertation. I'm really interested in this Latex becasue I have a long paper to do. But I don't need footnotes, I need endnotes. Does it cater to this too? Also, I'm not a programmer, not at all. Best, Sylvia Hi Jim,
Best wishes to Laura for her dissertation. I’m really interested in this Latex becasue I have a long paper to do. But I don’t need footnotes, I need endnotes. Does it cater to this too? Also, I’m not a programmer, not at all.
Best,
Sylvia

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