Document Preparation in Linux

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Document Preparation in Linux

• Manu Bhardwaj, PESIT Bangalore
• Hareesh Nagarajan, RVCE Bangalore

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Why

• What is a structured document?
• 'This is not WYSIWYG!'
• Choosing instead of Office

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Introducing... 'What is it? How did it begin?
What does it do?'

• All about
• All about
• The teTeX project
• Communities like the TUG and CTAN
• Licensing schemes and ethical issues

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Implementation

• File extensions like .tex, .dvi, .ps, .pdf
• 'Real Men Don't Click!' From raw text to a
  presentation in ten seconds (using just the shell
  prompt)
• The need for multiple passes

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A Typical Document Layout (from the Not So Short
Introduction)
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Part One - Quick and dirty

• A bare bones 'article'
• Methods like documentclass, usepackage,
  begin, end
• Section, subsection, subsubsection
• Adding a table of contents, a bibliography, an
  index and footnotes automagically

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Part Two - Necessary Frills

• Adding images and tables
• The concept of 'floating' boxes
• Adding color, double spacing, page resizing
  (geometry), emphasizing text, fonts, items
• The useful verbatim command

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Part Three - Extending It

• 1. Math!
• Implementing Math equations, etc. easily
• 2. Language!
• Support for European languages and more
• 3. Create Your Own Command!

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References

• The TeX Users' Group http//www.tug.org/
• The teTeX site http//www.tug.org/tetex/
• The LaTeX Project http//www.latex-project.org/
• 'The Not-So-Short Introduction to LaTeX' (PDF) -
  Oetiker, Partl, Hyna Schlegl
• 'The teTeX HOWTO' (HTML) - Keisling
• ... and our own reference site!
  http//symonds.net/manu/misc/latex/

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Feel free to contact...

• Manu Bhardwaj manu_at_symonds.net and
  http//symonds.net/manu/
• Hareesh Nagarajan prodigy625_at_yahoo.com and
  hareesh_at_symonds.net