[plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[marks at fs.com.au]

Greg Mildenhall wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Christian wrote:
> > I'm starting to wonder if I seriously should write my thesis in Linux -
> > 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.
>
> Excuse me??? You're seriously considering not writing your thesis in
> LaTeX? They _let_ you write in something else? How quaint.
> Just use LaTeX. It really is the only choice. Sure, for a brief letter
> now and then or something, it ain't worth learning, but if you're writing
> a whole thesis, then you want to have something that looks professional at
> the end, and you don't want to have to fight with a word processor to do
> it. Just use LaTeX, you won't regret learning it. What is your thesis on,
> anyway? Thesis-obsessed minds wish to know. :)

LaTeX is the way to go :)

Sharp learning curve, but once you're in the groove there is no looking back
:)

This is all second hand information drummed into me by my girlfriend who uses
it for her thesis, but I believe her...


Mark