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.

The 04 Oct. 2017 version of Programming LaTeX—A survey of documentation and packages by Brian Dunn should direct you to the newest version of that document and hence to all of the documenation your heart desires.

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