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I wrote my thesis in LaTeX under Windows. My tools were: 1. http://www.texniccenter.org/ http://www.texniccenter.org/ Great UI to get you up and running. You s
by pierrefar 17y ago
I wrote my thesis in LaTeX under Windows. My tools were:
1. http://www.texniccenter.org/ http://www.texniccenter.org/ Great UI to get you up and running. You still type in LaTeX markup, but you can compile to PS or PDF very quickly.
2. OpenOffice to produce the images, which are exported as PDF. LaTeX has a way to include PDF files directly into the output.
3. For anything else, get a PDF printer and generate PDFs that way. You might need a PDF editor to set the bounding boxes properly though, so it will take some hacking.
4. For bibliography, I used a very hacked up system. EndNote allowed export in a format that LaTeX understood, except that it had a bug in the output markup. So I wrote a quick PHP script to fix that and add a unique, deterministic, ID for each reference so I can refer to it in the text. Worked a treat.
- kilian 17y agoI used Mendeley for my bibliography, which I can really recommend, and it exports to bibtex as well. I ended up rewriting most of my bibtex (and a custom bibliography-style file), but it was nice as a start, regardless.
- merraksh 17y agoI make most of my with xfig and export to .eps. I also use the LaTeX package psfrag to include LaTeX math formulae in images.
- vog 17y agoI'm using Inkscape instead of xfig for drwaing graphics. However, there's also TikZ -- a LaTeX package that takes the descriptive approach to graphics: You describe what you want and get almost always a very nice picture that fits perfectly with the rest of your LaTeX document: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/ TikZ comes with an amazingly good manual: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generi...
- merraksh 17y agoI knew about pgf, in fact I've made learning it my new year's resolution. It is indeed amazing. I didn't know the texample.net website though, thanks.
- alexitosrv 17y agoFor bibliography I used JabRef (http://jabref.sourceforge.net http://jabref.sourceforge.net) It's written in Java, and is very simple to use.