This article will not be a tutorial for how to use Latex, instead an overview of its benefits and why I think it trumps what word processors have to offer. I’m not the only one who’s glad to move away from the WYSIWYG world. I’m very glad I persevered because I wouldn’t want to use any thing else for my papers/reports any more. There was a learning curve, but for the typical documents that I often wrote, there was very little to learn. Undeterred, I stuck with Latex and realised that it wasn’t so hard after all. (Lesson: don’t try to learn something new in a rush!) Needless to say, I had a hard time of it and wasn’t Latex’s best fan that day. I jumped straight into the deep-end with both feet. The deadline was the same day as I found out about the call for papers. Actually, that’s not quite true, I wanted to submit a paper to a journal and it only accepted Latex documents. However, ever since my never-ending woes with Word during my degree, when I started my PhD, I decided to go and try out Latex. Nowadays, I can use OpenOffice because it’s come a long way and really is a decent product (the current v2 beta is very good). In all seriousness, I’ve written many words in large documents using Microsoft Word. Likelihood of you throwing your computer out of the window is directly proportional to the number of times Clippy pops up.Likelihood of a crash is directly proportional to the duration since you last saved.Likelihood of a crash is inversely proportional to the time left before its deadline.Likelihood of a crash is directly proportional to the importance of a document.Anyone who has used Microsoft Word for a reasonable amount of time will recognise my very own Andy’s Laws on Word:
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