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Introduction
Hey, I'm new on the board - originally came from LaTeX based frustrations, but the help has been so good and so quick, I fancy just sticking around for a bit. My experience with LaTeX starts and ends with what I'm mandated to do with it by my physics degree. Not that I don't like it (though debugging can be a pain), and it does make for a powerful typesetter with pretty output, but for anything else I just prefer a quick WYSIWYG editor - but who knows, maybe I can be converted...
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Stefan Kottwitz
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Re: Introduction
Welcome to the board!
With bigger documents you can really benefit from LaTeX's capabilities. For small docs and quick writing, I can understand if you use a word processor. However, also here LaTeX would be quick and easy once you got your set of templates for commonly used documents, such as letters or solutions to exercises.
Stefan
With bigger documents you can really benefit from LaTeX's capabilities. For small docs and quick writing, I can understand if you use a word processor. However, also here LaTeX would be quick and easy once you got your set of templates for commonly used documents, such as letters or solutions to exercises.
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localghost
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Re: Introduction
I'm convinced that you will appreciate LaTeX even for short documents at the latest when submitting your first paper that needs to fulfill the demands by a certain journal. I started using LaTeX at university for my physics lab reports. Since then there is almost no document that I do without LaTeX.
Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten
Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten
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Re: Introduction
I'm sure I would in the context of a research paper - but I don't consider that a short document - even Phys. Lett. are a few pages long and require enough formatting to justify the LaTeX faf.
As for templates - i only ever use the class article and just sort of have a pre-amble i copy and paste in everytime.
As for templates - i only ever use the class article and just sort of have a pre-amble i copy and paste in everytime.