On 17/1/21 6:30 pm, Terrie Terlau
wrote:
I did my dissertation on an Apple 2C
with Prowords and made the heading levels and styles using
Prowords commands. I did my statistics tables this way. It was
very tedious but doable.
I wrote mine in LaTeX, which handled all of the formatting as well
as the automatic citation and bibliography generation.
This is also what I now use when writing scholarship (e.g., a
journal article or a book chapter).
Some people prefer Markdown instead (using Pandoc to convert it
to other formats. However, I find that there are usually features
I need which Pandoc Markdown lacks, but which are supported by
LaTeX or by one of its numerous packages.
If you're using Windows/JAWS, then Notepad++ is probably the most
similar text editor to what you're used to. Of course, if you
prefer UNIX/Linux-style editors, as I do, then Emacs and Vim can
be installed - even on a Windows system.
For bibliography generation, I maintain BibTeX files in a text
editor. I tried Zotero at one point, but it wasn't as accessible
or as convenient as I had hoped it would be. I've read that some
people have had success with EndNote.
Zotero supports LaTeX, Microsoft Word and LibreOffice. It's
definitely worth revisiting if the accessibility issues are
addressed.