I'm not normally one for these short entries, but . . .

[philena]

Dude! I'm using LaTeX! I'm writing my syntax homework on it! I've got three pages! It has a title, and an abstract, which I managed to re-label "homework summary", and I have a table of contents and section labels and numbered examples with glosses, and I even have funny letters! Like å and ø! And when I run it so far, I don't have any errors! (er

Comments

[annabananaface]

La Tex is in many ways easier when you get used to it. I won't claim that getting used to it is all that easy, tough. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of pages of books on LaTex for linguists alone out these, more so than just the general ones, which are usually written for mathematician/computer scientist types, since those people invented for themselves (well, one of those people, really). I hope that you enjoy your learning though, and it does make things really pretty.

[philena]

The procedure of using LaTeX is a lot like the procedure of learning any new program, I'm finding. For example, when you first start using Word, every time you want italics you have to go to the formatting menu and find the choice to turn on italics. Then you type what you want, and then you go to the formatting menu and turn it off. After a while you realize there's a shortcut button on one of the tool bars. Eventually you realize that you can just type Ctrl-i and get what you want. It's the same for footnotes. For a while you're going to the "insert>reference>footnote or endnote>footnote>numer it this way" menu selections, until eventually you realize you can just type ctrl-alt-f. With LaTeX for a while I'm looking at the documentation to realize that I need to type \textit{blah} every time I want italics, but eventually I get used to it