Hello,
My name is Travis. I have a couple of questions, but I
am not sure if I am asking them in the correct place. Please let me know
if there is a better place for these questions.
I finished my undergraduate work last May and have been
working for the same engineering firm for the past three years. I was
introduced to LaTeX and WinEdt while at school. I found it to be a
pleasant and powerful way to write my school papers. At the same time, I
would come to work and have to use Word to create documents, some of them
large. I doubt I have to write the list of annoyances of Word. With
that said, I began to think of, and talk to my bosses about, changing from Word
to LaTeX for producing our documents. I doubt that I need to list the
positive reasons for this here either.
I would say that I have a good grasp of WinEdt and LaTeX,
but it could be stronger. I understand how a single user utilizes the
Project management features of WinEdt. How does the project management
operate over a network? Assuming that each section of a report are
separate files, can multiple users still open the project and manipulate the
section they are working on while others work on their own? What happens
when you compile?
Does anyone one currently use WinEdt and LaTeX in the
engineering consulting world. I am up against Word and the belief that it
is the only document writing resource and that people can’t learn
anything new (even though most people don’t know how to use Word to begin
with). I would like to sell this to the powers that be with any examples
of success I can find.
Thanks for any responses,
P. Travis James E.I.T.
Project Engineer
Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers
633 Third St.
Eureka, CA 95501
Phone: (707) 443.8326
Fax: (707) 444.8330
Email: travisjames <at> w-and-k.com
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> Cheers, Phil
Thanks for that, Phil. I wasn't sure which end to go for, it was a
guess that worked!
Joseph Wright
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