There is a learning curve associated with the language.LaTeX for a comparison of the two typesetting programmes in life science. There's lots of free online information and help about how to do stuff in LaTeX.Also, there's an online tool for creating a BibTeX entry from a PubMed search query. The BibTeX database software for OS X, BibDesk, is superior to Endnote in many ways. Again, BibTeX is free unlike Endnote which is a common software package for use with Microsoft Office. An addition to LaTeX called BibTeX makes referencing very easy.LaTeX offers many import and export features to interface with other pieces of software. Apart from saving you money this has the obvious advantage that you will not be locked into using a type of software. For some, this is the main motivation of using LaTeX.eps files scale well so you can just include the same figure in papers and posters and you don't have to (usually) worry about bizarre scaling effects. It makes reuse of figures, tables and equations across papers, presentations and posters very easy.For example, there is a clever little routine that thinks about the best possible placement for all your figures in relation to the text. LaTeX's automatic typesetting routines save you time especially in the last stages of document preparation (cross-references, citations, figure and text placement).See this typography comparison for details. ligatures, variable space, orphan lines, figure placement.). On average LaTeX generated documents have a better layout than those made with word processors like Microsoft Word (e.g.
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