Before I start, let me tell you the little story, how I got the idea for writing this article. When I wrote my first article for OSNews, one of the screenshots I included showed my diploma thesis. I merely wanted to show that OpenOffice.org in Fedora Core 2 features native icons, nothing more.
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I did my first term project documentation with OO Writer. Having 20 or more pictures within a document of at least 60 pages created problems and sometimes messed things up. In previous years I have used MS Word and when I came to OO Writer and started to have similar problems with it for big documents I changed to Latex. So, I did the documentation for the last term project in latex. The big advantage of latex over OO Writer or MS Word is that it doesn't mess things up if your document is large. It is also much easier for two people to work on the same document as you can include other files. For example I gave each chapter its one file which proved to be very useful.
I did my first term project documentation with OO Writer. Having 20 or more pictures within a document of at least 60 pages created problems and sometimes messed things up. In previous years I have used MS Word and when I came to OO Writer and started to have similar problems with it for big documents I changed to Latex. So, I did the documentation for the last term project in latex. The big advantage of latex over OO Writer or MS Word is that it doesn't mess things up if your document is large. It is also much easier for two people to work on the same document as you can include other files. For example I gave each chapter its one file which proved to be very useful.