TeX
From MSCF
TeX and LaTeX are typesetting software that produce especially good results for mathematical publications. They can be used to create handouts for teaching including tests and quizzes, and they can be used to record your own mathematical work and are a standard submission format for mathematical journals.
This software is available on the t-machines. First create a source file, starting from one of the templates below called filename.tex, then use the command pdflatex filename.tex to create a PDF file. This file is visible in your U:\ drive. If you are working from outside of the office, you may want to create the file inside your public_html and view the result as a webpage.
This software is available on the windows machines. Please see the documentation for MiKTeX until more is written here.
This software is even available on this docs wiki. Try it yourself!.
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Beamer
Beamer allows you to create presentations as PDFs which are similar to PowerPoint presentations, but with much better math rendering.
Beamer documentation is online:
- user guide from CTAN
- sample pictures of beamer themes
- ready made conference talk just needs the content.
- more ready made talks, including 20 minute talks
Beamer also includes pgf and tikz. Tikz is amazing for producing high quality graphics with very little fuss.
Beamer example files and documentation are also available on the T-machine in /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/beamer/
Margins
Dr. Scott McClintock found a way to pass the infamous ruler test for dissertation margins. His solution uses the elegant geometry package written by Hideo Umeki. Consult the geometry package page on TUG for documentation.
When I attempted to reproduce Scott's results, I needed to enlarge the right margin by one-sixteenth of an inch to get it to pass the ruler test. I also had to adjust \footskip to position the page number properly.
The basic preamble that works for me is
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage[left=1.5in,right=1.0625in,top=1in,bottom=1in,footskip=0.5in]{geometry}
Please update this section with success stories and failure stories. Please include
- your preamble,
- your operating system,
- your compilation method (latex+dvips, pdflatex, etc.), and
- any other information you consider relevant.
EditHint: replace this with info about Dr. Erik Stokes's ukthesis.cls .
