On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Matthew Gardner 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.
I wish I could go to this presentation. I am a long-time LaTeX user. It might be nice to point out that there are several style/classes for thesis/dissertation at BYU. I got my M.S. in civil engineering and used LaTex for my thesis. In the process I modified an existing BYU thesis to match the CE department guidelines as of 2007. It is available on the CE Graduate Seminar website http://frontpage.et.byu.edu/ce691/ . You may also want to mention Xfig when you talk about figures. One of Xfig's nice features is the ability to use LaTeX code in the text blocks within the drawing. This let's you have pictures whose in- figure text updates with changes to the report they are included in. My current use of LaTeX is to produce engineering calculation reports. I have a macro in my spreadsheet that writes out a .tex file with variable names and values. I then include that in my report and use the variables (\newcommand...} in my report instead of numbers. This allows me to show detailed calculation steps and intermediate results if necessary in the report and not worry about forgetting to update things if my spreadsheet changes. It can literally save days of time. Joshua Draper -------------------- 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
