Wow that sounds like a cool meeting. Wish I was still in provo. Could you post slides or pointers to documentation afterwards?
--Daniel Rich On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Matthew Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm presenting for our meeting on 10/15. The topic will be on LaTeX. I've > used LaTeX instead of Word or Open Office for all of my homework assignments > for the past year and a half. It's not just for conference papers or > presentations - you can make good looking single-page assignments with LaTeX > too. Here are some possible things I can discuss. I would very much > appreciate it if you would tell me what you want to know about, and if > there's something you want to learn that I haven't listed. > > Document classes - article, full page, presentation > Making your own commands with \newcommand, \providecommand and \renewcommand > Labels and references for sections, figures, equations, algorithms, or > whatever you want to label > Math notation in LaTeX - $$, \[\], \(\) align, align* > What the * means after some commands > Algorithms in LaTeX > Figures with captions, configuring the display of figures, \includegraphics > and options > LaTeX in vim - plugins that help out > Changing the font or font style with \emph, \it, and so on > Using someone else's style document, like for a conference paper where they > specify the format > Bibliographies and citations > Changing the layout of the page with \textwidth, \textheight, \topmargin and > so on > How to change a .tex to a .pdf - pdflatex or Chris Monson's LaTeX makefile > > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
