New Members ⇒ I love/hate LaTeX

[pandammonium]

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.

[Annabel]

Welcome to the world of enlighted people!

[Keith Emmert]

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

[pandammonium]

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