I think LaTex is great, but it has a problem: if you have a lot of citations, your text may become unreadable. You have one paragraph full of \footnote{and then ten lines of text here} before continuing the sentence you were writing in the first place.

On the other hand, I am not very happy with the editors that I have used, MicTex and TexMaker.

Next year I will be writing my thesis in international law and I think I will try to combine OpenOffice with LaTex. You can write your text in OpenOffice and export it to latex. You have to be careful to make sure that OpenOffice produces a clean markup. Obviously, you may want to change the header, but that is the good thing about LaTex, you can separate form and content.

Something I haven’t checked out yet is biblatex, which apparently allows you to generate the bibliography style using TeX macros (ie instead of using whatever strange language bibtex style files use), only using bibtex for the bibliographic entries themselves). Could be the way to go if I can’t fix up these niggling problems!

I’ve just seen your last question Brett, and I’m asking the same : “Why does jurabib choke when an author entry in bibtex has quote-marks to force latex to not split an organisational author into lastname, firstname?”

If you have got any answer to this problem could you advise me ? thanks
N Carbone

PS : For italics titles, I put in my preambule :
\usepackage{jurabib}
\jurabibsetup{%
titleformat=italic,%
%
}

I haven’t really come up with anything brilliant in terms of tips, but at some point I may have to bleg myself, particularly with jurabib. For example, is there a way to make jurabib use single quotes where it normally uses double quotes, and vice versa? Why does jurabib choke when an author entry in bibtex has quote-marks to force latex to not split an organisational author into lastname, firstname? Why does jurabib get confused when there is text in a footnote, and put a full or short cite in instead of an ibid? And so on … :)

-Eric

cheers

MR