Dear :
Mike Roy
On 8/24/05, Dave Howorth
wrote: Jie Li wrote:
Thanks Richard, I think I probably will stick to M$word first coz I don't have much for trying something new, I am on the edge of the my thesis deadline. I will write my thesis first in M$word as a draft and convert into latex later, this seems a little stupid, but might be a easier way for me
Hello Jie
I think that is a very wise decision. Your priority is to finish your thesis so use the tools you are familiar with that you know will do the job.
Hello Dave, Thanks for your helpful suggestion. I am doing the same thing. It's just a pity that I did not find the counterpart of M$Word in Linux which has a Grammar check function. OOo Write needs to upgrade and include this function. Or maybe someone with get a LaTeX editor with this function. I will move on writing my thesis. cheers. Jie
One suggestion, if you have not used Word to build a document as large as a thesis before, is don't try to build the whole thing in one document. Split it, perhaps into individual chapters, and keep lots of backups. This makes it easier to deal with some difficulties that can arise in Word itself with big documents, and also with problems that sometimes arise with printers. You can always join the individual chapters together when you finish, to produce a single document.
FWIW, I think Word's grammar checker is pretty good, and I'm a native English speaker. I've used it successfully in an environment with professional journalists. It's not perfect, so it's worth having a grammar book as a backstop, but it catches lots of things.
Cheers, Dave -- Dave Howorth MRC Centre for Protein Engineering Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QH 01223 252960