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In article <2328@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> hsd@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Harry S. Delugach) writes:

>I am soon to begin the production of a large, technical document (namely
>my Ph.D. dissertation).

Personally, I would say that anything but LaTeX would be incredibly painful
(but then again, PhD students are used to pain, eh? 1/2 :-) ).  Elaborate
bibliography handling, excellent support for equations, adequate support
for pictures (many just paste postscript in), handling for nearly every
typographical problem in the known universe, and extreme portability -
you can get LaTeX for Unix boxes, Macs, and PCs to produce the same results.
(OK, I'm a little biased...)

Another advantage is that you can set up "style files" for different types
of documents, and most TeX-using universities have styles for their theses.
I'd be willing to pass ours along, with the warning that you will probably
have to change a few things to make it acceptable for your thesis editor,
and there are a couple of bugs that need manual workarounds.  Still, once
you get it set up right, theses can typically pass the thesis editor on the
first try!

							stan shebs
							shebs@cs.utah.edu