[plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[Bret Busby]

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On 6/2/99, 9:49:19 PM, Christian <christian at global.net.au> wrote 
regarding Re: [plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration:

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> I'm starting to wonder if I seriously should write my thesis in Linux 
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> WordPerfect is ok but it's graphic handling is very bad and it can't
> generate a decent Table of Contents to save it's life.  Star Office 
has
> a marginally better TOC functionality but runs so slowly I'm wondering
> if it's seriously worthwhile trying to use it.

Christian;
What about using tex? (LaTeX and its derivatives)

It is a typesetting application, used by many academics for publishing 
their papers.

Tex does not include a spell checker, but linux does.

It comes with Linux (RH, anyway, and, I believe, Slackware)

Try man tex.

Anne's just told me to suggest it. Her postgrad dip co-ordinator 
teaches a post grad unit in research/project preparation. Latex is 
used as the documentation formatting application for the submitted 
written work for the unit.

There is a heap of information on the web, and it goes to each of the 
platforms.

The only thing is that if you search for latex, rather than tex, on 
the web, you end up at all kinds of deviant sites, in addition to 
legitimate, rubber oriented sites.

It does tables if contents, bibliographies, and everything for an 
academic written submission.

In comes with "templates" to assist in specific layout formats.

Bret Busby