Yes, but the learning curve is just a leetle bit steep. (Especially since I'm beginning to suspect I'm the only person in the world using it for the Humanities. I've yet to figure out how to get bibliographic footnotes, as opposed to endnotes.) Although right now it's technically BibTeX which is driving me nuts.
That sounds about right; for the little shop of typesetting horrors that is the complete International Phonetic Alphabet, you basically have a choice between TeX and the Mac OS X equivalents of WordPad and Word. Since I already have Mac OS X, I'm mostly in it for the fact that switching between OpenOffice at home and Word at uni produced the most maddening little style inconsistencies in the footnotes and headings. So last week I threw up my hands and resigned myself to having all my future essays look like a Year 12 Maths exam. ;o)
As for BibTeX, initially it dumping the whole .bbl file (which contains a grand total of one reference at the moment) into the document without line breaks but with markup intact, and now it's simply refusing to process the bibliography at all (speculating that there's a "missing \item". *headdesk*
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BibTeX. Hm. Yes, sometimes that is a black art. WHat's the problem?
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As for BibTeX, initially it dumping the whole .bbl file (which contains a grand total of one reference at the moment) into the document without line breaks but with markup intact, and now it's simply refusing to process the bibliography at all (speculating that there's a "missing \item". *headdesk*
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