![]() ![]() My nerves were seriously shaken and I didn't want to get through the painful manual formatting again. Don't even get me started on references - I had to manually format them all (30+ entries), and that Gargantuan effort took probably a better part of a workday.įortunately, I had a good equation editor (not the Microsoft-supplied excuse of a such), and that made writing equations a breeze.Ĭode formatting and pretty-printing was another thing I struggled with - I ended up taking screenshots of the Matlab code from the editor, and adding those in the appendix. Even the slightest change in the text moved all the stuff around, and I had to double check almost all of the figures again and again. Word has automatic TOC creation and formatting, but there are occasions that you want to make it just right - for example, trimming a bit a long section title to fit on one row (which in LaTeX is trivial).Īs far as figures went, it worked mostly okay, unless you try to keep a figure on a specific page and manually try to adjust it to fit. It's not that I was new to Word, or that I can't find my way around a computer program, but it frustrated me to no end. I've written my bachelor thesis in Microsoft Word (version 2003, if memory serves), and that was excruciatingly painful experience. ![]()
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