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University Document Fonts?

I use LaTex as my Tex editor, its not that hard to learn but will take a bit of time. Its definatly worth it if your producing a lot of scientific documents.

http://www.latexeditor.org/
 
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Download the zip, then extract the contents. You can preview what each font looks like by double clicking on each file.

If you want to install a font (so that it is availabe in Windows), go to Control Panel -> Fonts, then go to the File menu and choose "Install New Font..." and choose the one you want.
 
There are 3 grad students I know, all of whom are fairly adept when it comes to computers, especially when it comes to Office. They all decided to write their doctoral dissertations in MS Word. All of them had load of trouble with formatting. They'd save one day and come back the next and discover that all the page numbers were screwed up. Next time it might be all the images or text boxes had moved, weird things like that. I'm sure that it was nothing they were doing as all three worked independently but experienced the same issues.

It only started getting buggery when the page number started climbing near the 500 mark.

My mother wrote both her theses on Corel Word Perfect; the first one on DOS, the second on Win 2k. Word Perfect is good and TeX is nearly flawless.
 
For me Tex handles all the mathmatical symbols with ease where its a pain to get open office etc to display correctly and the short hand notation to include them.
 
I wrote my dissertation in Word. Formatting was a pain in the bum! It was never consistent!

Id recommend learning Tex. Its looks more pro and saves hassle.
 
True, I had terrible problems with my dissertation using word, and I am very proficient in Office- pages would not print properly, boxes containing code moved around, graphs sat on top of text, breaks were a complete mess, etc- was a real nightmare and nearly cost me bigtime!

Now at work we have to write very long documents, often full of source code and shell commands- Tex is perfect for this.
 
Did mine in word. 20,000 words, made up graphs, text, images code. Used styles for headings etc. Never had any major problems tbh.
 
+1 for TeX. M$ word simply cannot handle anything bigger than 25 pages full of equations and figures. Plus, it is a PAIN to cross reference consistently. You move a figure 0.5cm and EVERYTHING gets messed up.

BiBTeX for references you just copy and paste the code from web libraries also :)

If you want to put together a quick 10 page report, word.

If you want publishable level material, LaTeX no questions asked.
 
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