Applications of Tex for papers and your thesis

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Applications of Tex for papers and your thesis

• Lecture by
• Natascha Niermann,in context of the
• phd progamm
• FB Physik,
• Surface Physics
• Universität Osnabrück, 49069 Osnabrück

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Content

• which programs are needed to install
• where to find this programs in the net
• useful additional installations for some comfort
• how to understand basic structures of the
  installed programs
• some infos about ghostsript and ghostview
• some infos about the program MiKTeX
• some infos about Winedt as the Editor for writing
  your thesis or paper or whatever else
• selected ideas to configure your own preferences
• Concrete techniques and structure, presentation
• summary and outlook

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What you need to install

• Working with a Windows - System
• you need a LateX capable compiler, e.g. MiKTeX
• you need a ps capable programs for the view,
  like ghostscript and ghostview
• you need an editor to create your writings
• Working with a Unix System
• - you need a LateX capable compiler, e.g. teTeX
• you need ps capable programs for the view,
  instead ghostview there is GV(different viewer)
• - you need an editor to create your writings, for
  example vi or emacs

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Where you find the programs in the netor use
google!

• Ghostview and Ghostscript
• www.dante.de
• MiKTex or other LaTeX
• www.dante.de or www.miktex.com
• WinEdt or other Editors
• www.winedt.com

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Useful add-ons and supplements for some comfort

• If you want to write a paper for physical review
  or some other magazines, it makes sense to
  install revtex4
• You can get it at dante again
• There are some special files, you can get, for
  example some downloaded files you can include in
  LaTeX, there will be special packages which will
  offer a mathematical environment or any special
  language, layout variations
• Consequence you have more time for your hobbies,
  hopefully

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Basic structures of the installed programs

• Ghostscript serves the postscript environment,
  that is needed by
• Ghostview for having a comfortable look at your
  created document
• any form of LateX compiler that is installed will
  interpretate your constellation of command lines
  and make a DVI document of it, which then can be
  used to look at the final form
• the editor (Winedt or vi) makes it possible to
  write the text with some given tools and is
  connected to the compiler, so you can call it
  from there

For the successfull creating of a text you will
need the interlock of basically four different
programs.
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Ghostscript and Ghostview

• Ghostscript is used as a Postscript environment
  that is basically needed for the sight of your
  created ps files in the viewer called
• Ghostview is one form of viewer that is dedicated
  to show ps (postscript) files or eps
  (encapsulated postscript), as well in Windows as
  in Unix

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MiKTex or other TeX programs

• The structure you write a main.tex file for your
  document, where you include all the other
  tex-files, which build the different parts of
  your thesis, every command that will be read
  begins with a \, the main file has to include
  \begin and \end, also used for some
  substructures.
• The compiler is capable of understanding
  pyramidic structures, which means you have
  chapters, the next level below is a section,
  the next subsection, followed by a subsubsection.
• Every command line can be labelled and so you can
  refer to it at every other point.
• You can include pictures in different forms and
  you have a helpful structure to make tables,there
  is an environment to write mathematical formulas
  and a lot more..

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Infos about WinEdt and the useful functions of an
editor

• WinEdt is a powerful, extremely flexible and
  versatile editor and shell for Win32 with a
  strong predisposition towards the creation of
  LaTeX documents
• When you have edited your .tex files you can
  call LateX for citing the belonging .bib
  files with the same name will be compiled by
  calling bib , DVI ps makes a postscript of
  it, that can be globally used and viewed by
  ghostview

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Ideas to make your own style files

• You can make your own so called style files,
  where you can define for example again and again
  used expressions that would need a lot of time if
  you write them every time new
• Of course it is possible to write your own macros
  for complete new designed functions as for
  example the style of cyting, sometimes as a
  variation of the predefined functions
• Consequence hopefully you will have a better
  overview and again more time for important things

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Concrete technics and working

• Writing your text
• Compiling with latex
• Including bibtex
• Repeat eventually
• You have created a dvi (device independent ) file
• Converting to a viewable file
• like ps or pdf

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Summary and outlook

• SUMMARY
• If you are a little bit familiar with the
  structures and have managed it to have a working
  installation, you will have a very powerful and
  comfortable program for writing a thesis or any
  papers or maybe abstracts
• Latex makes avery good and clean formating and
  can handle very big writings without and problems
  of stability
• OUTLOOK
• For better informations you have to listen to the
  next speaker, in contarst to me he is an expert