latex usage

Latex is a text editing markup language.

http://www.latex-project.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

simple template

Editors

On Windows

MikTex is a great base.

http://miktex.org/

• • automatic package retrieval and installation

  • can be integrated into TexNicCenter. During initial TexnicCenter setup, point to

    • C:\program\miktex\bin\?

For an editor, TexNicCenter is extremely useful

http://www.texniccenter.org/

Others prefer a WYSIWYG editor such as Scientific Workplace (in my opinion, crappy, but if you don't want to learn Latex, it gets the job done (crappily))

Led

On Linux

Kile is a good editor, not as good as TexnicCenter

getting packages is not automatic, so they must be manually installed.

single .sty example

$ wget http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/algorithms/algorithm.sty

$ wget http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/algorithms/algorithmic.sty

$ sudo cp algorithm* /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

$ sudo mktexlsr

Full package example:

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/appendix/

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/glossary/

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/diagrams/xypic/

extract it to /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/

$ cd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/appendix/

$ ls

appendix.dtx appendix.ins appendix.pdf README

$ sudo latex appendix.ins

$ cd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/glossary/

$ sudo latex glossary.ins

$ sudo mktexlsr

$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xy

$ unzip xy-3.7.zip

$ sudo cp -r xy-3.7/* /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xy/

If mpm were an apt-get package, you could do

sudo mpm --install=xypic

eps figures

thanks to

http://maverickranter.blogspot.com/2009/11/fixing-eps-bounding-box-automatically.html

There is pageboundingbox and boundingbox. Irfanview sees only the bounding box, while evince sees only pageboundingbox.

There seems to be some third set of parameters, as seen by

http://promote.3m.com/eps_viewer/index.jsp

editing method 1 (easiest, best results)

on linux,

$ sudo apt-get install epstool

$ epstool --copy --bbox filename.eps output.eps

epstool should be available on windows too:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm

but I was not able to download it

editing method 2

in matlab, save file as PDF. Then on linux

$ convert filename.pdf filename.eps

editing method 3 (hard)

open the eps file with a text editor while viewing the eps. search "boundingbox" and the following 4 number are the coordinates (viewable in ghostview).

Also, "pageboundingbox" (viewable in okular)

http://nibot-lab.livejournal.com/73290.html