LaTeX

TeX is a powerful text processing language and is the required format for some periodicals now.

TeX has many macros to which you can eventually add your own.

LaTeX is a macro package which sits on top of TeX and provides all the

structuring facilities to help with writing large documents. Automated chapter and section macros are provided,

together with cross referencing and bibliography macros.

LaTeX tends to take over the style decisions, but all the benefits of plain TeX are

still present when it comes to doing maths. The Why LaTeX? page discusses LaTeX's strengths/weaknesses.

On CUED's central system you can run latex from the command line using latex or pdflatex.

We also have Kile and Lyx.

FRONT/BACK MATTER:

• See the bibliographies page.
• Natural Science Citations - provides many options. See also the reference sheet
• CTAN has many bibliography styles in its bibtex section.
• Using Makeindex. How to add an index to your document
• Simple LaTeX Glossaries and Acronyms using the glossaries package
• The glossaries documentation

The nomencl package How to add nomenclature sections

GRAPHICS :

  

• Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and PDFLaTeX (by Keith Reckdahl) explains all there is to know about
• putting graphics into LaTeX documents.
• The Hints about tables and figures in LaTeX and Hints on adding figures to multicolumn environments documents 
• deal with common problems.See also Klaus Hoeppner's Strategies for including graphics in LaTeX documents
• Graphics for Inclusion in Electronic Documents (Ian Hutchinson).The xfig graphics editor.
• Gnuplot displays data graphically. Use its "set term postscript eps color" to produce a postscript file which
• can be added to your latex document in the usual way.Matlab may be preferable.
• The pstricks tutorial show how to use the pstricks package to produce line drawings
• Matlab graphics with LaTeX

MATHS :

   

  

• The psfrag handout addresses the common problem of how to add LaTeX maths to a postscript file.
• Part of Math into LaTeX (by G. Grätzer) is online
• AMS-LaTeX provides specialist support.
• The Short Math Guide for LaTeX comes from the American Mathematical Society
• mathmode (133 pages) by Herbert Voß is useful.
• Matlab has some support for LaTeX production. Type "help latex" inside matlab for details.
• Effective Scientific Electronic Publishing (by Markus G. Kuhn) and AcroTeX by D.P.Story cover PDF production.
• Maths cheat sheet (Martin Jansche)
• Math Tutorial for mimeTeX
• A Survey of Free Math Fonts for TeX and LaTeX (Stephen G. Hartke)

EDITOR OR FRONT ENDS :

  

KILE: With Kile (installed on our local system - type kile in the Terminal window to start it)  you still need  to type LaTeX code, but Kilehas many facilities (templates, wizards, etc) to make it easier. You should be able to find what you want in the menus (for example, the File->Statistic option gives a word-count, etc). You can print the LaTeX file directly from Kile. To print the output file you need to use another program. For example, if you want to create aPDF file you can produce the DVI file, use the Build->Convert->DVItoPDF option, then the Build->View->ViewPDF option to view the file. The viewer has a Print option.

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•  LYX:

lyx is a WYSIWYG front-end for LaTeX that's getting better all the time. It's installed on our teaching system. Warning: it may not always be easy to convert between LaTeX and lyx formats - use at your own risk!

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• Texmaker (not installed) is a free cross-platform LaTeX editor
• TeXnicCenter is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for use with Microsoft Windows (Windows 9x/ME, NT/2000/XP)
• LEd is a free integrated development environment (IDE) for use with Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating systems
• The emacs editor offers extra menus when a LaTeX file is loaded in.