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Using LaTeX under Linux: An Introduction and Overview.
Presented by Peter Hiscocks.
TLUG meetings are held at UofT on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm.
- Date
- Tuesday March 14, 2000
- Time
- 7:30 pm
- Topic
- Using LaTeX under Linux: An Introduction and Overview.
- Speaker
- Peter Hiscocks
- Peter Hiscocks is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he uses Latex to produce volumes of technical notes that his students are required to read.
- Description
- Latex is a very useful document processing tool which works especially well in the Linux environment with other programs available under Linux. This lecture will introduce Latex and show how it is used to produce documents. The lecture will also show how other tools such as xv, xfig, dvips, xpaint, gnuplot, dvips, ps2pdf latex2html and sed can be used in conjuction with latex to form a versatile document processing system.
- The lecture is intended to give an overview of the application, strengths and challenges of using Latex, together with pointers to more detailed information and tutorials for those who wish to use Latex.
- Topics will include:
- Latex Overview
- Comparing Latex and Word
- Latex as a Programming Language
- Strengths and Weaknesses: Who will find Latex useful?
- The Document Processing Flow: Edit-process-view
- Latex under Linux
- Incorporating figures: Xfig, Xv, Xpaint, Postscript
- Simple customization with macros.
- Importing a document into Latex: Sed
- Organizing a Book Project: The file heirarchy, managing figures
- Typesetting mathematics
- Location
- Room SF1105, Sandford Flemming Building, University of Toronto
- Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8
- University of Toronto
