You just have to have to right spelling dictionary installed and then tell the editor to use that dictionary (under Edit > Spelling). Another nice feature is that converts from WYSIWYG editors don’t have to give up their little red underlining for misspelled words. However, for me it didn’t take long to adjust to typing in the editor on the left side of the screen and hitting Ctrl+t whenever I wanted to see what the formatting looked like (Ctrl+t typesets the document and also saves it). LaTeX also eased my transition to Ubuntu, since I could continue using TeXWorks, whereas I wouldn’t have been able to continue using Word (at least not without Wine).īefore I switched to TeX I was afraid it would be difficult to compose in, since TeXWorks and other TeX editors aren’t WYSIWYG, so you don’t see things like italics or font faces in the document you’re editing. Switching to LaTeX made it possible for me to end up with a document that looked professionally typeset and appeared exactly as I wanted, with little explicit formatting on my part.
That’s not to say that I couldn’t have done it in Word, just that even after a decade I found Word completely unintuitive and difficult to customize.
TEXWORKS SPELLING WINDOWS
At that point I was still using Windows and Word, and I just couldn’t get the paper to look like I wanted it to in Word, despite having used it for a decade and having taught it to high school students for a year. I started using LaTeX while working on a qualifying paper as a graduate student at Rutgers.
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