Hi, I started using LaTeX to write up my linguistics MA assignments then dissertation. I hated the thought of of spending all my time selecting Insert>Symbol then hunting around the symbols for the appropriate IPA symbol which probably isn't there in the font I'd be using anyway in Word, so I thought it was about time I actually tried LaTeX. Now I spend all my time looking up symbols in the marvellous symbols document and searching the Internet to find out how to do just about everything else!
I love LaTeX.
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Re: I love/hate LaTeX
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Keith Emmert
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Re: I love/hate LaTeX
Don't feel bad...everyone has issues with LaTeX. Believe it or not, it does get better! (I keep telling my thesis students this...eventually they believe me...I think).
Keith
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pandammonium
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Re: I love/hate LaTeX
Thanks, Annabel, and thanks, Keith; and good luck to your students!
I think it's a matter of use-it-or-lose it with me. If I use Latex all the time, I get into it and don't have to look so much stuff up, but if I have a break from it (e.g. I'm reading, not writing), then I have to go back to looking everything up. That's why I started the Latex tips pages on my website!
Cheers,
Pandammonium
I think it's a matter of use-it-or-lose it with me. If I use Latex all the time, I get into it and don't have to look so much stuff up, but if I have a break from it (e.g. I'm reading, not writing), then I have to go back to looking everything up. That's why I started the Latex tips pages on my website!
Cheers,
Pandammonium