lots of academic journals in the humanities still don't accept submissions in pdf or latex source form.Don't make any more problems communicating with your advisor than absolutely necessary. I suspect he or she will not understand the question and will not be able to give you any feedback unless you submit chapters in word format. make sure your advisor is ok with leaving you comments in pdf.I'm finishing up a PhD in philosophy that I've written in LaTeX. Is compatible with LaTeX so I think I would continue to us it if I go Mendeley for my refernece manager and have read some blogs where this Probably be entering some tables with stats. Shall also need to insert some images (maps and photos) and will Probably about 95% of my thesis will be text but I Relation to the learning curve with LaTeX, here is some more info that (Edit ) Just based on some of the answers, especially in I would be grateful for answers from people who have used LaTeX in the Humanities area so as to be best prepared for my own decision on whether or not I would like to use it.

His advise was to use whatever software I was comfortable with (although he had never heard of LaTeX).

My last written piece to my supervisor was done in LaTeX, using Texmaker on Ubuntu then exported to pdf, and other than some tweaking we need to do to the citation styling he was quite happy with the output. Only requirement is that final thesis before defence is printed in ring-bound cover and the (hopefully!) accepted thesis is a hardback bound copy. I'm sure how familiarity or usage of LaTeX within the History department will impact on my decision but would also like to prepare my thesis in the best possible way.Įdit 10/04/14: After a meeting with my Supervisor it appear that the History department has no preference on software for writing the thesis. I'm going to be meeting my supervisor over the next couple of weeks and would like to discuss the matter with him as to if I should/can use LaTeX. I am using Mendeley to manage all my footnotes and bibliography. At the moment I am using Libreoffice (I'm a Linux user -Ubuntu distro) to write up each chapter as a separate document which I was going to bring into a master theses document. I am a part-time research student so my thesis with be approx. I have searched my university website about LaTeX and most results come back from the maths department.

I get the feeling that it is best suited for Scientific work but my MLitt is in History. So I reviewed the ' What are the advantages or disadvantages of using LaTeX for writing scientific publications?' question on this forum and am sitting on the fence at the moment whether or not to use LaTeX to write up my masters Thesis.

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