Favourites
- Hypertext Help with LaTeX - an online manual - also at csit.fsu and various other sites.....
- LaTeX Tips & Tricks -- from www.texnik.de -- an alphabetic list of commands, and macros that work! Also lists related packages.
- A Guide to LaTeX - old, but lists some "non-obvious" commands
- TeX Resources - a nicely organised page of links
- TeX/LaTeX Usenet Postings Archive - hints on graphics, math, boxes, and strange stuff I never would've thought of...
General documentation & help
- An Introduction to LaTeX
- LaTex2e documentation (UWA) - see esp the Concept Index
- LaTeX Help - see also TeX in CEU for more useful links
- LaTeX Hints (Rensselaer Polytechnic - see also The LaTeX Help page)
- TeX Frequently Asked Questions (searchable!)
Tutorials & Howto's
- Extending LaTeX - how to create your own commands, environments & packages
- Producing HTML and PDF files with LaTeX - another useful page from eng.cam - see also Text Processing using LaTeX
- LaTeX -- A Typesetting Program - includes a summary of the picture commands, including qbezier.
- The LaTeX Cheat Sheet (pdf) - contains all sorts of useful hints
- A beginner's introduction to typesetting with LaTeX
- A LaTeX Tutorial (TOC)
- Getting to Grips with Latex - Tables - essential table how-to's, like how to get them to line up on the decimal point, for instance!
- Andrew Roberts' Getting to grips with Latex - the index to the rest of this site.
- LaTeX and PDF "Staff Development Opportunity" - includes some ineresting tips, including how to create an online quiz!
- Lectures from math.arizona.edu -- this includes a really nice example doc with heaps of useful comments.
Help on specifics
- LaTeX tips: Displayed Math
- Questions On Math - includes how to put a box round an equation
- Multiline equations in AMS-LaTeX (pdf)
- LaTeX Tricks: Captions
- LaTex units of length
- LaTeX Fonts
- Tips on using colour in LaTeX
- Help On LaTeX tabular
- Help On LaTeX \setcounter - from Hypertext Help with LaTeX
- Page Setup explained
Packages
Indexes
- The TeX
Catalogue Online
- see also here for an older compilation
- Master Index of Local Documentation (mostly in dvi format, old compilation)
- Jürgen Kropp's index of LaTex-related documentation (links to docs, all in dvi format)
- Yet another LaTeX packages list
Info on specific packages
Documentation
Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations
- Creating Presentations in PDFLaTeX
- Creating Computer-Based Presentations Using LaTeX
- Latex-based Presentation Software - an overview
- The TeX online catalogue - pdfslide, prosper, ifmslide, seminar, ...
- miwie.org - Screen Presentation Tools - ifmslide
- TeXPower (at sourceforge.net, see also the project page)
- Electronic Presentation sans Microsoft Powerpoint - a bit of an overview
How-to's
- Making Slides in LaTex - some good stuff here - with explanations!
Importing Graphics
Getting images into LaTeX (and out again!)
Now this can be a bit of a drag... So far the golden rule seems to be: EPS for LaTeX (output to dvi - you might be able to then convert to pdf), PDF for PdfTeX & PdfLaTeX. In other words, run your PS image thru distiller to turn it into a pdf, then import that!
So - assuming you've got distiller (or a suitable substitute), the main hassle is turning your wmf or gif or jpeg or whatever into eps... There's all sorts of little apps out there for Unix & friends; not nearly so many for Windows (Jpeg2ps is one that is).
If the source is available can BYO (for us Windows users MinGW's gcc tends to be less trouble here than MSVC). Too bad my 1st attempt in this regard was an old GIF to PS converter; it built alright, but was too out of date to do anything useful when run. Oh well...
If all else fails, get it into MS-Word then print-to-file using a postsript driver. If you're lucky there'll be an "Encapsulated" checkbox. Otherwise have a look at:
- Getting graphics into LaTeX - there's a bit at the end about doing your own bounding box.
Inserting Figures
- How to insert figures into LaTeX articles
- Working with Graphics In LaTeX
- Manipulating Figures in LaTeX2e
- Tables and figures in LaTeX (floating explained!)
- Graphics and Color in LaTeX -- see also (mirror)
Pictures
- The LaTeX picture Environment
- Another LaTeX picture Environment how-to (pdf)
Symbols & colors
Symbols
- LaTeX Symbols - a very handy list!
- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (pdf) - upto and including Dingbats & laundry (as in No-Ironing!) symbols
- The Short Math Guide for LaTeX - Symbols provided by LaTeX + amsmath + amssymb, plus info on the various math environments (pdf)
Colors
- Color
package demo - includes a list of the 68 dvips colors.
Note - to use these with pdfTeX must include the "dvipsnames" option.
BibTeX
- The BibTeX Format -- describes the format of a BibTeX database
- Another page on the BibTeX format -- part of a set of pages on Bibliography database formats in general
- Listing of BibTeX Journal Styles
- BibTeX Styles for Statistics Journals
BibTeX how-to's
- How to use BibTeX -- an exellent bibtex basics page
- A LaTeX example
- Getting Started with custom-bib: An introduction for for SWP users
Natbib
- Natbib reference sheet -- reference for the natbib package
- The LaTeX natbib package -- SWP technical doc
Converting to/from other formats
LaTeX to PDF
LaTex to RTF
Word2tex, etc
- Chikrii SoftLab - Word2TeX
- How to convert a MS Word document to TeX (OIT Help Desk)
- Conversions to & from LaTeX (TeX FAQ - "fmtconv")
LaTeX-related sites
- MikTex - best paired with WinEdt (IMHO)
- LyX - The Document Processor
- Scientific WorkPlace (MacKichan Software). Nearly WYSIWYG, at least with respect to the maths - really handy for creating those complex formulae. Would be even better with an "edit source" option...
LyX-related pages
SWP-related pages
- Technical
support/knowledgebase
- - Scientific WorkPlace technical support
- LaTeX Packages supplied
with SWP 3.0 - Complete Alphabetical Index
- (this site hasn't been updated since 2000, so a bit out of date...)