Recommendations about ways of writing documents.
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen:
I have to publish and essay about mechanisms and will have source code, graphs, equations, pictures... in it; will have about 110 pages or so. I need a program to write that document.
I know programs like Libreoffice, latex, texmacs... but I don't know which one will be better suited for that task.
Being able to write the document (perhaps on book format) on a modular structure will be a plus because I remember libreoffice being slow after 60 or so pages of text, graphs and pictures.
Thank you
I would definitely go for (La)TeX or a variant.
If your text is "simple enough" though, you might want to have a look at
pandoc or asciidoctor.
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:54:00PM +0100, name at domain wrote:
>Greetings ladies and gentlemen:
>
>I have to publish and essay about mechanisms and will have source
>code, graphs, equations, pictures... in it; will have about 110 pages
>or so. I need a program to write that document.
>
>I know programs like Libreoffice, latex, texmacs... but I don't know
>which one will be better suited for that task.
>
>Being able to write the document (perhaps on book format) on a modular
>structure will be a plus because I remember libreoffice being slow
>after 60 or so pages of text, graphs and pictures.
>
>Thank you
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LaTeX all the way. It's been a while since I've used it but I can try and help you if you decide to go with it.
+1 for Lyx/LaTex, you could do it with LibreOffice and use a combination of writer and draw, however, Lyx is designed for projects like yours, even writing books and screenplays etc...
Scribus is a worthy project as well but can require a bit more tinkering.
I will follow your advice and use LaTex for the project.
¿Could you recommend me documentation? I've been using a book from wikibooks but it's not all there.
I am a translator!
https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
is this one good? I never used latex but I drink a lot of latte every xingle day :)
SuperTramp83 said: is this one good? I never used latex but I drink a lot of latte every xingle day :)
Well my friend, If you land in jail, or you are subject to a "full physical exam" or If you are suffering a severe stomach flu or appendicitis issue you will be the patient or subject to the latex globes test. Regardless of your age sooner or later in your life. It is one of those things in life you can't avoid or be excuse..
Lets drink some home made brew Latte for those ailments to go away....
I used LaTex to write my thesis. My supervisor asked me then to write a template so others in future could use it as a basis. I'll have a look and see if I can find it. I have some documents (including the one suggested by SuperTramp83 above) as well which I can pass on.
My PhD thesis in LaTeX: http://dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf/publications/PhD%20thesis%20(Lo%C3%AFc%20Cerf).pdf
If you like the theme (André Miede's work, not mine!), here it is: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis/
The structure is modular. I can send you the source of my thesis if you want an example. Notice however that it does not rely on the usual way to divide a LaTeX document into many files (the usual way is to use \input, which is like C's #include).
My thesis does not show source code but much pseudo-code (the "algorithmic" package was used). For real source code, other packages exist (something called "listing" I think).
By "graphs", I believe you mean line charts. In my thesis, I used 'gnuplot' to obtain EPS images, that I converted to PDF with 'epstopdf' (with the 'pdflatex' interpreter you cannot include EPS but you can include PDF) and inserted with LaTeX's \includegraphics command. However, if you mean "graphs" as in those at the bottom of page 123 of my thesis, then I use the LaTeX package named "tkz-graph". And I used the "pst-tree" package for the trees (such as the large one on page 65).
Pictures are inserted with LaTeX's \includegraphics command. Notice however that the type of images you can include depends on the interpreter you use. I used 'pdflatex' for my thesis and could insert PDF, PNG and JPEG. With 'latex', you could only insert EPS images. To make diagrams, you can use the excellent Inkscape (something more to learn though), which can export to both PDF and EPS.
And, of course, LaTeX rocks when it comes to writing equations.
SuperTramp83, that is a very good text to learn. Thank you
HuangLao, why Lyx? I'm a little worried about that program because I realized it uses it's own format and I'm not quite sure if it is 100% compatible with latex code.
As the others say, LateX is the way to go. Years ago (i.e. before GNU FSDG distros existed) there was a specific package which exampled the building of a whole thesis, including statistical charts, in make style using LaTeX and other tools. Nowadays I suspect you can roll your own from packages texlive and latex-make.
Try Texinfo, the GNU documentation System. It will really help you.
You can produce output in a number of formats: tex, dvi, html, info, pdf, xml, etc.
Thank you everyone, I will make it in Latex.
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