LATEX@dd: Introduction
At these pages you will find information about using the LATEX formatting system. If you think there's anything missing, tell me!
All questions should be sent to LATEX@dd.chalmers.se

  • Under Quick start you will learn how to quickly get started.
  • Under emacs is some information about using emacs in the best way to write LATEX documents.
  • Under Documentation you will find links to some good texts about using or learning LATEX.
  • Under Help files you will find some templates and additional packages that will come in handy when you write reports and other texts.
  • Under Macros I hope there will be a lot of macros that you people have written.
  • Under Hints you will find a lot of good hints on how to enhance the quality of your documents.
  • Under Questions you can read the most common questions asked to LATEX@dd.
  • Under Links you will find some links to different LATEX sites.

Why use LATEX and not Word, FrameMaker etc.

News!

  • The new Emacs will automatically load the package auctex, which means that you can remove some unnecessary stuff in your .emacs. Go to the emacs page to check out what you need in your .emacs.
  • To convert your dvi files to pdf format use the program dvipdfm
  • All documentation is now available in Acrobat PDF format.
  • Greger och Anders have put together some logging templates for use in e.g. Expfys or Elmät B. You will find them among the help files
  • The manuals are now also physically available. You can find them in the part of dd where the macs used to be.
  • Swedish spelling is now installed in emacs. First choose Swedish with Edit->Spell->Select Svenska8 and check your document with Edit->Spell->Check Buffer.
  • Swedish hyphenation should work now. You can always suggest hyphenations with \- inside the words.
  • LyX, a special LATEX editor, is now installed at dd. Type lyx to run it. Documentation is available inside the program.


LATEX@dd
Sat Sep 16, 2000@08:58:49 PM

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