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

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Alexandra Ribeiro wrote:

> At this moment I've to make a choice: continue using Word or start
> learning a new tool, which will probably consume much of my time. So, I'm
> in a dilemma. That's why I'm asking for help.

Hi Alex,

I don't know MS-Word very well, but *all* of my colleagues use it. I can
see how they use it, the resulting documents and how much time they spend.

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
documentation, you should be able to write a thesis with a standard layout
and all the automatically generated lists (table of contents, of figures,
of tables, of bibliography and so on), automatic references, automatic
placement of figures and much more.
None of my colleagues, even those with several years of experience with
MS-Word, is able to do that.

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).

Cheers, Peter

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