LATEX RESOURCES AND HELP

Files | Converters | Links | Tips

I encourage any suggestions that you may have that you want to add to this page. Please email me at mtackett@math.kent.edu if you have any suggestions!

I have the following books available for checking out in my office:

  • LaTeX: A Document Preparation System (2nd Edition) - by Leslie Lamport

  • Math Into LaTeX by George Grätzer

  • The Latex Companion - by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin

  • The Latex Companion (copy 2)- by Goossens, Mittelbach and Samarin

  • The Latex Graphics Companion - by Goossens, Rahtz and Mittelbach

Style Files and Samples to download

Thesis/Dissertation Latex Sample files (I think... not sure how current these are yet!!!): Thesis format guide | Dissertation Sample

Thesis/Dissertation Style Files: mathdiss.cls | mathdiss.sty | mathdissco.cls | mathdissco.sty | maththesis.cls | maththesis.sty

I believe the usage for the Thesis/Dissertation style files is as follows:

  • single advisor, doctoral dissertation, LaTeX-2e:
    \documentclass{mathdiss}

  • co-advisors, doctoral dissertation, LaTeX-2e:
    \documentclass{mathdissco}

  • single advisor, doctoral dissertation, LaTeX 2.09:
    \documentstyle{mathdiss}

  • co-advisors, doctoral dissertation, LaTeX 2.09:
    \documentstyle{mathdissco}

  • masters thesis, LaTeX-2e:
    \documentclass{maththesis}

  • masters thesis, LaTeX 2.09:
    \documentstyle{maththesis}

 

Department Letterhead for LaTeX: See the README file and comments in the source files and examples found there.
[mscsletter.cls is built on top of the standard LaTeX letter.cls and tries to mimic our official departmental letterhead, providing the appropriate footers for either Math or CS (depending on the class options you use). It was written mainly for Linux/UNIX and works with those systems---I don't know about on Windows LaTeX-ing systems.]

 

Converters
LATEX to WORD converter!!! Click on this link to download a converter for transforming latex into word documents: http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf
Docudesk - not sure where it's at yet, but I've been told that this is a converter for "DVI to PDF" - if I find a link to download it, I'll let you know.

LaTeX Info Links

These are some links I have visited in the past. They might help you too...
Jakob's LaTeX tricks
LaTeX help 1.1 - Table of Contents
LaTeX Project Home page
LaTeX Tricks
TeX Users Group (TUG) home page
Summary of Latex
http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/ - this page has some really great information too

LaTeX Tips and hints
For Math Bold Font: need one of those characters that has the double line on the letter? Normally, you would use a math bold font to create the letters and use this code in the header of the file:
\newfont{\bb}{msbm10}
\def\Bbb#1{\mbox{\bb #1}}

Then you might also add a newcommand line in the header, like this, for specific letters that you are using:
\newcommand{\C}{\makebox{{\Bbb C}}}
\newcommand{\M}{\makebox{{\Bbb M}}}

BUT... if you don't have the math bold font in the package that you are using, sometimes you can cheat and simply overlay an "I" over the letter, like this:
\newcommand{\otherR}{\rm I\kern-.19emR}

I know there are other ways to do this also... I think the \mathbb command might do it.
Caligraphy: use \cal before the symbol
INSERTING IMAGES: Check out this link http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/figures.html - it has some good information on how to include graphics in your documents. As for me, to insert images into a latex document, I use a package called "psfig" and then use \begin{figure} and \end{figure} commands... Here's a basic example:
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \input{}
  \caption{}\label{}
\end{figure}

Here's what I use:
\begin{figure}[htb]
 \centerline{\psfig{figure=file.eps}}
 \caption{blahblahblah}
 \label{Fig. 1}
\end{figure}