Document Typesetting - LaTex

ganesh

How many Frihost users out there use Latex for typesetting documents in preference to MS Word and other bloatware out there in the market?

It has a bit of a learning curve, but the end results are very good, much better than using other commercial word processors. And best of all, it is freeware.

Frihosters can pen in their experience using LaTex for document typesetting in this thread.

tester9

i had a small tutorial a few years ago. latex sounds very good but it is a bit to complicated to set up the right page layout.
the advantage of word: you can start writing without any knowlegde and the menus make everything very easy.

i know the formulae can created much better in latex. if there would be software with more assistents i would use it. but if i need more than the twice of time to create a small document it is not effective.

and if you like freeware you can use open office.