What are the tools available to write research papers?
The most commonly used tools to write papers are Microsoft Office and Open Office. The commonly encountered graphs are generated in Matlab. Graphic softwares can be classified into two categories: one for handling raster graphics, like Photoshop, Gimp and one for handling vectorized graphics, like Illustrator, Visio, and Inkscape. LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. It is particularly popular within the scentific community. It is available on Unix-based operating systems and it is ported to the Windows operating system through MikTeX. Any text editor can be used for editting LaTeX files. The popular choices include TeXnicCenter, NotePad++, and Emacs.
