On may 28 2009 I gave a talk about LaTeX.
“TeX has a reputation regarding mathematical typesetting and its hyphenation algorithm, but there are a lot more reasons to be interested in TeX.”
The original announcement is at the bottom of this page.
Slides
Online resources
The RuG TeX Live installation
- Web page.
- The LAN installer is under Start / RUG Menu / Text Processing / Tex Live 2008. If it isn’t there, ask the help desk for access. The installation also includes a lot of documentation and a cdrom image for local installation.
Getting TeX
If for some reason you don’t want to use the RUG installation:
- TeX Live, the basis of our TeX installation
- MacTeX, TeX Live with adaptations for Mac OS X
- MikTeX, a Windows-only TeX distribution
Editors
- The RuG TeX Live installation already includes TeXnicCenter (Windows-only).
- TeXmaker, cross-platform
- TeXShop, for Mac OS X
- TeXWorks, cross-platform, not yet production-ready
- LyX, conceptually similar to Scientific Word
- JabRef, for managing bibliograhic references. Cross-platform (Java).
Also of interest:
- TUG getting-started page
- If you want to see what TeX can do, visit the TeX showcase.
User groups
- NTG, Nederlandstalige TeX Gebruikersgroep, many useful links
- TUG, TeX Users Group (international), many useful links
- List of national TeX user groups
Original announcement
TeX, because text can always be done better.
- Equation disasters?
- Broken files?
- Too much handwork?
- Better pdf support?
- Prefer to be in control?
If you want more than a wordprocessor such as Word can offer, TeX or LaTeX may very well be the answer. In up to two hours, Siep Kroonenberg, RUG TeX specialist, will show you that there is another way.
“TeX has a reputation regarding mathematical typesetting and its hyphenation algorithm, but there are a lot more reasons to be interested in TeX.
You can create without fuss reports, articles and teaching materials in TeX. But there are also professional typesetters who create typographic masterpieces with TeX. Programmers and other ICT specialists use TeX to create documentation which they want to offer both in pdf- and in html format, both fully cross-referenced. Engineers and scientists are often inveterate tinkerers, and TeX gives them a lot of scope for their creative urges.”
Additionally, Siep will display some TeX-editors with which you can work in an (almost) wysywyg fashion, but she shall also demonstrate that the command-line has advantages of its own.
| Date: | Thursday May 28 2009 |
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| Time: | 15:00 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Zernikeborg (Building G), Donald Smits hall |
| Address | Nettelbosje 1, 9747 AJ Groningen |
RuG TeX pages last revised on July 12 2009