Hi Alex, I am in a similar situation, just a few months ahead of you. I am writing a textbook and decided to do that in Context, without having had any experience with TeX or LaTeX. So far, I am pleased with my decision (my experience covers figures, math, tables, footnotes, text and figures in margin - a lot of it default stuff - but not yet bibliography, index, fonts (except greek) and table of contents). The discussion group helped me when necessary and politely ignored some premature idiotic questions. However, the level of the discussions is way above my head, and I at times get the feeling of being an obnoxious intruder. The most important thing: it is fun and often a welcome change from writing. It reminds me of old-style photography, where you exposed the film and then had to wait, wondering whether the picture would come out as hoped or not. But if one doesn't like that, the effort is probably too much for a PhD thesis. Cheers, Jörg. Prof. Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics DKBW, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 6953049 On Jun 17, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Alexandra Ribeiro wrote:
Hi, I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis. I’m completely new to TeX and of course to Context but I’m convinced that Microsoft Word is far away from being the right tool for writing a long document. Well, in the past I had some big big headaches… 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. Is it really worth learning Context? I mean, does this package deal efficiently with some important things like TOC, cross-references, bibliography, figures, math, …? Is it too hard to learn (for a mere mortal, of course)? What about support for different languages, in particular for Portuguese? If I choose Context, can some somebody give me some guidelines/advices? I’ve already downloaded mswincontext.zip and I’ll start studying/testing Context. Thank you. Alex alex.r@netcabo.pt_______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context