LaTeX is the 'best' way to go. If you on Linux try the Kile , a excellent gui interface tool to LaTeX which does not impose any special structures onto your pro

LaTeX is the 'best' way to go. If you on Linux try the Kile , a excellent gui interface tool to LaTeX which does not impose any special structures onto your project. You are still free to arrange you LaTeX files as you wish. Get yourself a decent intro to LaTeX book, Lamport's is the 'standard' , but other titles are very good as well. LaTeX user guide and reference ( 2nd edition) : Leslie Lamport LaTeX Notes, practical tips for preparing technical documents : J.Kenneth Shultis LaTeX for everybody : Jane Hahn are all useful reference to have handy. BTW: I've used Tex & LaTeX since 1989 across various platforms, and have shifted all my projects without any 'conversion' problems because all LaTeX files are plain text. Most , if not all, other document handling tools use their own file formats. Remember TeX is a document language so you have to write your text as plain text and it is 'compiled' into you printed document, it is not like using Word or OpenOffice. But once learnt Tex/LaTeX will prove useful forever !