Not only will you have sugar-sweet PDF, you can manage and change your whole citation and bibliohraphy style literally with one command. For outputting and typesetting however, LaTeX is super cool. Writing LaTeX directly can be like writing source code and for most people it might not be the optimal environment for creating texts. Jason Shafer has a good post about the why. Basically, Scrivener lets you organize your chapters and sub-texts in a tree-like project drawer. At this point, Scrivener comes in as a great writing tool. ![]() Keeping track of all the chapters and their relations to each other can be a real pain when you have more than a couple of thousand words. Not only does this distract me from writing good content, it also leaves me with just one long document. During the writing process, I often find myself dealing with all kinds of formatting related tasks. ![]() When you are dealing with rather large chunks of text that should become a thesis, a manual or whatnot, having to deal with MS Word or Pages might not be the best experience.
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