Graduate Thesis Seminar Week 1: Latex and HTML

1. Graduate Thesis SeminarWeek 1:Latex and HTML Jonas Braasch

2. You need • A latex distribution (e.g., Miktex) • A post script viewer (e.g., Ghostview) • A Latex editor (e.g., LatexEditor) Install everything in this order, follow default instructions

3. Miktex • Miktex (etc 2.4) http://www.miktex.org/Setup.aspx e.g., basic-miktex-2.4.2207.exe (~ 32 MB).

4. Latex Editor • E.g., the MeWa Latex Editor • http://www.meshwalk.com/latexeditor/ • E.g., version 1.4.0 • http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home5/pg03053527/latexeditor/LaTeXEditorSetup.exe

5. MeWa Updates • MiKTex Path: • C:\Program Files\MiKTex 2.7\miktex\bin • Ps2pdf • "C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.61\bin\gswin32c.exe" -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="$(FileTitle).pdf" "$(FileTitle).ps“ • Pdf view • "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" "$(FilePath)$(FileTitle).pdf"

6. Typical path settings • C:\texmf\miktex\bin • C:\gstools\gsview\gsview32.exe

7. Ghostview • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html • Install Ghostscript first: • e.g ver 8.53. gs853w32.exe on • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get853.htm • Then install Ghostview: • E.g. 4.7 gsv47w32.exe on • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get47.htm

10. Mac OS • http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/default9.html • http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html • MacGSView 2.0b3

11. Hello World Example

12. Basic Template

13. Postscript of Basic Template

15. IEEE Template

16. Changes to the layout Please note that you can make many changes to the general layout. We will not get into that because we could easily spend the next two hours on it.

27. In Windows, you can view the dvi file with the program yap, which is distributed with the MikTex package.

45. Using Bibtex

46. cv

47. Bibtex turns .bib in .bbl file

48. References with alpha style

49. References with plain style

50. … Have a good day