On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Alexandra Ribeiro wrote:
At this moment I've to make a choice: continue using Word or start learning a new tool, which will probably consume much of my time. So, I'm in a dilemma. That's why I'm asking for help.
Hi Alex, I don't know MS-Word very well, but *all* of my colleagues use it. I can see how they use it, the resulting documents and how much time they spend. With this experience I'm quite sure, that ConTeXt is much easier to use for a thesis, than MS-Word. After about 4 or 5 days reading the documentation, you should be able to write a thesis with a standard layout and all the automatically generated lists (table of contents, of figures, of tables, of bibliography and so on), automatic references, automatic placement of figures and much more. None of my colleagues, even those with several years of experience with MS-Word, is able to do that. Another important thing: *only* MS-Word can read your Word-document, and of course only the right version (M$ won't guarantee, that Word-2005 prints out your document the same way as Word-2000). Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/