It's 2:40am on the day my thesis is due, and I've just realised that because I pasted the images into the Word (2004) document containing my thesis, they now won't show up in Word on Windows. You've got to be freakin' kidding me.
I now have to individually save the 40 images and re-import them into Word to get them to show up properly. So much for cross-platform compatibility.
Here you go
http://www.latex-project.org/
Hi Steve,
Yes, I’m thinking LaTeX would’ve been the best way. I wrote all of the thesis in Confluence, which worked great. It was the “last mile” that was problematic. Hopefully the crew at Atlassian will add LaTeX export soon.
Why don’t you use PDF instead? Surely you can just PDF on OSX?
Hey Scott!
I had to do some significant formatting (captions, table of contents/figures/tables, paragraphs, line spacing, headers, footers, etc), which I could only realistically do in Word. Once that was all done, I could print/convert to PDF.
In the couple of times I’ve done this, the “last mile” has been the hardest. Confluence is great for working with all the information. However, getting the information into a presentable form is very difficult. it’s not something suited to a web application, and exporting to Word at the moment is quite problematic (images don’t show up - ironically, because of a bug I introduced while fixing another!; Word crashes when dealing with HTML documents). I’ll try and condense my thoughts on the whole experience of writing my thesis in Confluence, so I can give some constructive feedback to you guys.
Jeremy
Piglet?
Pooh bear?
Tigger…oh we can go on forever!
I’ve had issues exporting from Confluence to MS suite