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TeX For Windows

mr_angry · 2005-01-06 22:56:31

Can anyone recommend a good TeX shell for Windows XP? I'm thinking of switching to a LaTeX editor for my thesis as I'm a bit unhappy with Word's bibliography system. I'm planning on using MiKTeX as the document compiler, but I can't seem to find a usable and well-supported TeX shell with a bibliography add-on. Any…

06-01-2005 11:56pm

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mr_angry

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Can anyone recommend a good TeX shell for Windows XP? I'm thinking of switching to a LaTeX editor for my thesis as I'm a bit unhappy with Word's bibliography system. I'm planning on using MiKTeX as the document compiler, but I can't seem to find a usable and well-supported TeX shell with a bibliography add-on. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

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#2 07-01-2005 12:08am

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#3 07-01-2005 12:11am

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Does OpenOffice have any TeX support?

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#4 10-01-2005 9:26am

ColmOT [MSFT]

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When I was writing myh undergraduate and postgraduate theses, I used a really cool program called EndNote that plugs into Word and manages the references dynamically and will format them on the fly etc.

Might be worth a look on google to see if u can get a copy anywhere.

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