![]() It's not as elegant if your citations are in footnotes, though you might be able to improve that if need be. This doesn't work so well for long sections, as you have to scroll past the commented out stuff, but it works well enough for the occasional rewritten paragraph.įor (8), bibtex is definitely the answer. I comment out sections that I'm probably deleting and then eventually delete them. I assume emacs has similar facility, but I can't remember emacs commands for the life of me.) I think some sort of track changes can be rigged up with vim, though I don't think it can go in real time like in Word, if that's what you're really after. (I have only a rudimentary knowledge of vim, but I can at least do that much. However, for large files if you're not doing this already, I find it helpful to have a separate file for each section/chapter and then a 'wrapper' file with \input used for each section.įor (3), I'm not sure what you mean by an outline, but would an appropriately clever text editor solve this problem? Vim can collapse sections via folds. In terms of (2), supercres is right, you can't really overwhelm TeX itself (I think you can theoretically overwhelm TeX while it's compiling, but you're not going to), but rathe rather the program you're editing the file in. Posted by supercres at 5:52 PM on August 24, 2011 You do need a LaTeX installation on any computer you actually want to do the compilation on, though.Ĩ) Make templates for those short papers! They'll have all your headers and styles built in you'll just have to fill in the body. And SVN and git can also make your projects (i.e., your. ![]() (I know there's a latexdiff-svn utility, but I've never used it.)ħ). It's super easy to save all your versions using SVN or git. You can also use a utility like latexdiff ( pdf manual) to get an annotated PDF showing the diff between two versions. Smart editors like Emacs/Aquamacs (which have their own learning curves) will make things even easier.Ĥ) LaTeX can track changes just by commenting the old version out, or making your own "tracked changes" style macro. I like TeXshop, but any editor will work. Well, I'll defend LaTeX against a few of your criticisms:Ģ) LaTeX is a language. ![]() posted by lhude sing cuccu to Education (13 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite Typesetting is cool (it almost makes me want to be a math major). Again, LaTeX isn't great in that area.ĩ.) WYSIWYG not a requirement. mellel, which I'm not so sure about.Ĩ.) Something that is made for academic (preferably humanities) writing, works with bibliographies, footnotes, etc., but wouldn't be totally annoying to write that occasional 3-page paper on. tex file if I opened the PDF on another computer and found a mistake. LaTeX could do PDF which was great but I hated that I'd have to wait until I was back home to my. Similarly, something with a relatively professional looking output.unlike Word.ħ.) Something that can open and save/export in normal files (.doc. As in, even Mellel is pushing it.Ħ.) Something not totally scary to approach. ![]() I wonder if LyX would be easier to use here.Ĥ.) I would like to be able to track changes, but it's not an absolute requirement if the program can do other things better.ĥ.) Something inexpensive. ![]() As in, something that has more of a way to overlook things than LaTeX does. (Even LaTeX crashed once, which I heard is impossible.)ģ.) I want something that has some sort of outline. Bean and even OpenOffice tended to crash when I would open my thesis on them. Hates it.) Mellel seems to win here.Ģ.) I want a program that can handle large documents. Other than that, I have a couple of requirements:ġ.) I'm a Religion major, so a program that can support right-to-left languages is important to me. I really hate Word and I'm not considering it for various reasons. I want something that could do (if not all) most of these things all in one, so I can get rid of this bulk (particularly OpenOffice). I've tried a couple of programs, and I really liked Mellel, but since it is $80 with Bookends even using their student discount, I decided to come here to ask for some possible other options.Ĭurrently, I'm on a Mac, and I'm using Bean for my everyday papers, OpenOffice for the articles I write in which I need to track changes, and I used LaTeX for my 50-page thesis that I wrote last semester. ![]()
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