Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
I just started using LaTeX this past year and now use it for all of my documents. I got started with a wonderful free guide called A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. It can be downloaded from a number of sites, but here is one: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ It was necessary to buy The LaTeX companion when I wanted to do some more advanced math formulae and figures, but it is actually a very difficult read. Buy the way: I prefer to TeX in Emacs because it has a built in LaTeX mode. Good luck! Jonathan Peter Jay Salzman wrote: every latexer needs two books: the leslie lamport book -- to learn the latex companion -- to reference pete begin Gabriel Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] hey all, can anyone recommend a good latex tutorial or book? I've never really done any work with it, but I'll be writing a paper in the next couple of weeks that needs to be formated for print. thanks, -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
begin Jonathan Stickel [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just started using LaTeX this past year and now use it for all of my documents. I got started with a wonderful free guide called A (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e. ah, yeah. i've seen this; it's a good document. good advice, jon. It can be downloaded from a number of sites, but here is one: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ It was necessary to buy The LaTeX companion when I wanted to do some more advanced math formulae and figures, but it is actually a very difficult read. yeah, the companion is definitely a must have. i suppose lamport's book isn't crucial if you get the not so short intro to latex, but the companion is very necessary to do anything intermediate or higher with latex. as for being a hard read, i agree, but it wasn't meant to be a read. it's a reference. so if you need for sectioning to look different from the default, you look up sectioning in the index. of if you want to learn how to make a customized bibliography, you look up bibliography. of you you want your float Here, Damnit! you look up float. or if you want to create customized page numbering or a running header, you look up pagestyle. definitely a reference. the only section i found almost unusable was chapter on NFSS (the font system). pretty much everything else is a 1-3 page read that's certainly do-able. btw, if you want to see the most non-linear and difficult book i've ever read (other than a field theory book), check out DEK's the tex book. that book is absolutely absurd! pete ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
Just type, in a file called myreport.tex:
\documentclass{report} % you can also use article or book
\usepackage{doublespace} % for ENL courses, you'll want this
\begin{document}
\title{My Title}% set document title
\author{Gabriel Rosa} % set your name
% \date{\today} % this is default so you don't need it
\maketitle % make the first page title
Blah blah \emph{really} blah,
then blah blah \strong{really really} blahed.
\end{document}
Then, from the command line, type:
latex myreport.tex # first to generate cross references
latex myreport.tex # second to apply cross references
latex myreport.tex # and third for a safe measure
dvips -f myreport.dvi -o myreport.ps # generate PS from DVI
lpr myreport.ps # and print!
If you want previews:
xdvi myreport.dvi
or use gv with consistently check file for changes (or whatever it's
called) option so you don't have to rerun gv everytime you want to view
your changes. I prefer gv over xdvi because PS files are stand-alone
whereas DVI requires external resources (ie, if you include pictures, DVI
requires you keep the picture around so it can grab the file when it
displays the document) and it's more of an exact replica of what you'll
see when it's printed. Using a makefile so you don't have to type all
these commands all the time is a good idea.
Everything else, you can learn one at a time... TOC, indexing,
cross-referencing, figures, tables, chapters, sections, subsections,
drawings, graphics, etc., etc., etc. And oh yeah -- `xfig` is your
friend.
-Mark
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
hey all,
can anyone recommend a good latex tutorial or book? I've never really done
any work with it, but I'll be writing a paper in the next couple of weeks
that needs to be formated for print.
thanks,
-Gabe
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Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:13 pm, Gabriel Rosa wrote: LyX seems a little unstable to me. The control widgets behave somewhat strangely and the window doesn't handle resizing properly. I'm not sure I can trust it to not crash on me mid-brilliant-thought :) I have not seen problems like that. But there are some recent (and perhaps unstable) ports to Qt and GTK... perhaps you are using one of those? The stable stuff uses XForms. Besides, it doesn't have vi key bindings. Fine, be that way. Happy reading! :-P Cheers, -- Rod -Gabe On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: Non-latex-gurus (like me) might like LyX (www.lyx.org). Really cool. You might be able to get the job done without having to learn much. :-) ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] beginning latex
hey all, can anyone recommend a good latex tutorial or book? I've never really done any work with it, but I'll be writing a paper in the next couple of weeks that needs to be formated for print. thanks, -Gabe ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
every latexer needs two books: the leslie lamport book -- to learn the latex companion -- to reference pete begin Gabriel Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] hey all, can anyone recommend a good latex tutorial or book? I've never really done any work with it, but I'll be writing a paper in the next couple of weeks that needs to be formated for print. thanks, -Gabe -- Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] beginning latex
LyX seems a little unstable to me. The control widgets behave somewhat strangely and the window doesn't handle resizing properly. I'm not sure I can trust it to not crash on me mid-brilliant-thought :) Besides, it doesn't have vi key bindings. -Gabe On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:21:51PM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: Non-latex-gurus (like me) might like LyX (www.lyx.org). Really cool. You might be able to get the job done without having to learn much. :-) ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
