Re: I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 18.06.2005 um 18:06 schrieb Peter Münster:

> With this experience I'm quite sure, that ConTeXt is much easier to  
> use
> for a thesis, than MS-Word. After about 4 or 5 days reading the

Don't know if it's easier (for a programmer, sure), but much more  
reliable -
MSW is famous for destroying huge works like books or theses.

A German computer magazine (I think it was c't) recently tested the  
ability of
different word processors to process big documents with footnotes,  
registers,
lists etc, and MSW became bad grades - if you choose to use a word  
processor,
use OpenOffice.org!

> None of my colleagues, even those with several years of experience  
> with
> MS-Word, is able to do that.

It *is* possible if you know how and are very careful (split the text in
chapters, safe and backup often etc.), but OpenOffice.org is better  
for that -
besides any TeX, of course. ;-)

> Another important thing: *only* MS-Word can read your Word- 
> document, and of
> course only the right version (M$ won't guarantee, that Word-2005  
> prints
> out your document the same way as Word-2000).

That's not true since about Word 98; and there are a lot of other word
processors that can import MSW-Docs (e.g. OOo again).


Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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