# Tag Archives: term paper

June 19, 2008, 2:34 pm

# LaTeX as a word processor?

Good article here at The Productive Student giving five reasons why students should use $$\LaTeX$$ as their word processor and not Microsoft Word:

1. Never worry about formatting again.
2. It looks way better. [By the way: Very nice article on LaTeX's typesetting at that link.]
3. It won’t crash: LaTeX is basically a plain text file. You can edit it anywhere, in any text editor, and it basically can’t crash on you. File size is very small which makes it very portable.
4. It’s great for displaying equations, which is why it’s the leading standard among sciencitifc scholars.
5. It fits in with the workflow of a student and allows you to do one thing well: Write.

The writer also shares some of his practices for writing papers (not necessarily math or science papers) with $$\LaTeX$$, stressing $$\LaTeX$$’s ability to handle bibliographic data as the “killer feature”….

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
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