J. Blustein

LaTeX Bookmarks

This list of resources was originally collected for Dal CS students who were already using LaTeX. The Introductory Materials section is new.

Introductory Materials

• M. E. Foster's LaTeX Notes
• The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX (in PDF^™)
  • by Tobias Oetiker et al.
  • closest version to Dal is at the main CTAN site
• Formatting information: A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX by P. Flynn (from main CTAN site)
  • in HTML (at main CTAN site)
  • in PDF^™ (at main CTAN site)
  • I don't know if this is good or not
• Trying out TeX (part of the MacTeX Technical Working Group website)

Resources

• CTAN Catalogue
• Template for CS6606 essays (using the article class)
• Installing a file from CTAN
• Some useful tips and tricks in LaTeX
• LaTeX examples from Academic and Research Computing at Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute
  • as a directory
  • as a list
  • An example of a LaTeX letter style is especially helpful
• CrossTeX bibliography tool at Cornell Univ.
• Google: LaTeX Directory
• ACM SIG Proceedings Templates
• pdfLaTeX
  • Index of /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfscreen
  • EuroTeX'99 Proceedings on CD-ROM
  • Re: embedding of fonts
    • text of message #01494 to pdftex mailing list (extracted from copy at the Internet Archive)
  • PDFTeX support (at TUG website)
  • thumbpdf (was: Re: thumbnails?)
    • text of message #04250 to the pdftex mailing list (extracted from copy at the Internet Archive)

See Also

You can borrow LaTeX books, articles, and CD-ROMs from the CS librarian (in room 209).

• The list of articles in the binders is avaiable (as a PDF file).

Dr. Keselj maintains a LaTeX template for Dal FCS theses.

Dr. Milios also maintains a webpage about Thesis Typesetting with LaTeX.

http://www.cs.dal.ca/~jamie/grad/latex-notes.html