“There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.” Doris Lessing Tomek left a reader comment about his workflow when it comes to using InDesign for a Masters thesis in Architecture. Thank you I found the comment helpful and to give it some more exposure, I copy-paste it into a posting of it’s own. He writes: I’ll be writing my Masters thesis in Architecture next year and doing it in anything other than InDesign seems nuts to me. I need to have full control over formatting and I need it to be reliable and consistent. Not qualities that Word is known for. However, Word has it’s uses. Here’s the workflow that I have used in the past and it seems to work quite well. – Use Zotero to create a database of your references. Zotero is free, excellent and has kickass support in Word. It makes inserting citations into our document a complete no brainer and also will create a bibliography/references page in whatever style. – Write the body of your thesis in Word. Be sure to set up some basic styles like a range of headers, etc. Name [...]
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