Star Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer
Linked by Christian Paratschek on Fri 10th Sep 2004 05:18 UTC
Features, Office 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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by Ben on Fri 10th Sep 2004 15:14 UTC

The subject is not so much about WYSIWYG editors but rather how to write long documents (a thesis) properly in OOo Writer.

Being a LaTeX AND a OOo writer user, I must say that both have their strength and weaknesses.

There have been many comments about LaTeX because people who use LaTeX know from "EXPERIENCE" that it is a lot more robust and will cause a lot less headaches compared to other tools, when writting LONG and COMPLICATED documents, like a thesis, as was the case in this article.

Please understand that we are talking about doucments that are over 50 pages long with lots of pictures, tables, references etc...

Also a lot of the articles that mention LaTeX also mention that this is a good article.

So let me make it clear: OOo writer is BETTER than LaTeX in many respects, however when it comes to writing a thesis (as mentioned in this article), LaTeX is the "better" choice.

I am not trying to force it on anybody nor come across as an elitist, but from EXPERIENCE, I have found that it is well worth learning since it pays off in the long term.