{"id":135,"date":"2009-03-18T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2010-07-21T00:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:42:54","slug":"thesis-writing-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcmeekin.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Thesis writing is underway."},"content":{"rendered":"

Three years into the PhD and thesis writing is happening. A long time ago I set out my thesis structure with chapters and potential sections to those chapters. However, after more work and several other changes the structure has changed. I now have a new structure and need to make the changes. I must confess to liking the new structure more than the old one. this new structure means that I need to start pretty much from the beginning and work on from there. Let’s see how it goes.<\/p>\n

The next challenge that I face is what to use to write my thesis. Up to this point in time I have always used LaTeX<\/a> for my writing but there is a small push from above for me to use Word<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why LaTeX<\/a>?
\nI have been using it for the past 4 or 5 years and find it very simple to use.
\nThe ability to focus on only the text without anything else happening is very useful.
\nIt generates fantastic pdf documents.
\nThe automatic pagination means I do not need to be concerned with layout as this is all taken care of.<\/p>\n

Why Word<\/a>?
\nMy 2 supervisors use it and it would mean that Track changes could be used.<\/p>\n

Now that I have those things out there I think more and more I will use LaTeX and my supervisors can use a pdf annotator in order to make comments.<\/p>\n

OK so from here on in it is head down and write, write, write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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