Not that anyone cares of course, but I’ve now started to write up my PhD. I spent a long time agonising over whether to use Word or LaTex. In the end the lack of decent reference management tools for Word persuaded me that I should just learn LaTex and get on with it. \u00c2\u00a0Yes I know Endnote exists, I also know there’s citation available with in Word now and yes I’m also aware of Bookends and Zotero. I’ve not used Bookends in real anger nor Zotero and Word 2008’s reference management is rather limited and frustrating to use.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
So LaTex uses Bibtex for reference management and it’s fairly simple. Bibtex generates a flat text file with all you references\u00c2\u00a0formatted\u00c2\u00a0the way you want and then merges them into LaTex for you.. well it’s typeset LaTex, Bibtex, LaTex, LaTex. The nice thing about it is that unlike Endnote it’s simple and you don’t find the interface crashing or refusing to let you edit things. But still things aren’t idea. My workflow currently looks like this.<\/p>\n
So that’s it at the minute. I should note that everything was also under Time Machine<\/a>, but due to a lack of spare hard drives currently isn’t. Though that will be resolved shortly. It’s quite a lot of software and that’s before you include the everyday tools such as the web browser, pdf viewer, mail client and of course Office as a lot of my older papers and conference presentations are in Word and Powerpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not that anyone cares of course, but I’ve now started to write up my PhD. I spent a long time agonising over whether to use Word or LaTex. In the end the lack of decent reference management tools for Word … Continue reading