LaTeX Help 2007-2008

  1. (Due Sept 10) Example LaTeX project proposal shell (save this as .tex) and the resulting pdf. Use pdflatex filename.tex to compile your LaTeX file to pdf.
    View the pdf with xpdf & (from a Terminal), for example.

  2. (Due Sept 17) Example LaTeX "Estimate of programs" project proposal shell (save this as .tex) and the resulting pdf. Use pdflatex filename.tex to compile your LaTeX file to pdf.
    View the pdf with xpdf & (from a Terminal), for example.

  3. Example LaTeX research paper for you to use as a model

  4. Bibliography formats

  5. LaTeX tutorial links:

To generate a LaTeX document

  1. Compile and generate a pdf from the latex file: pdflatex myfile.tex
    (or latex myfile.tex to generate a .dvi file)

  2. xpdf will view the pdf file (also gv, gpdf, kpdf, evince can view pdf's)

  3. To view a .dvi file using xdvi filename.dvi

  4. dvi file to pdf: dvipdf myfile.dvi (our current image doesn't support dvipdf, use pdflatex)

  5. To convert the latex file to html:
    "latex2html filename.tex"
    This creates a directory "filename" with an index.html file

  6. To convert to ".ps" (postscript) format, use dvips myfile.dvi

  7. To see the postscript (".ps") file, use Ghostview: gv myfile.ps