Off on a Tangent ~ හිතුමතේ හී සර

Although I generally use Windows platform and hence Word for most of my document writing, I have always used Latex for academic writing purposes. One reason being of course that back in uni, formatting using Latex was mandatory. In fact for my undergrad thesis I used a Sinhala Latex called SinTex since I needed to include Sinhala fonts which were not included in the general MikTex distribution. But mostly I find Latex to be much more easier to use since its a pretty well structured way of doing things. You dont need to worry about floating tables and images with captions randomly appearing all over the place...well sort of. :) Latex mostly takes care of them for you..So you dont have to spend time dragging and right-clicking and answering wizards. Latex is basically mouse-free! However due to the fact that I dont have my favourite Latex editor LEd and the MikTex distribution on my (new) computer I have been reduced to seek the help of Mr.Word 2007 to write this research paper :( Weell...