Links: Typesetting Using LaTeX

• LaTeX tutorials
  • Simplified Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey Greenberg.
  • A comprehensive review of mathematics in (La)TeX by Herbert Voss.
  • The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e: Comprehensive tutorial available on line. (101 pages PDF)
  • Math into LaTeX Introduction to LaTeX and AMSTeX by George Gratzer (114 pages PDF).

• Collection of LaTeX commands, mathematical symbols, etc
  • List of LaTeX2e commands
  • List of (La)TeX Greek characters, Mathematical Symbols (.pdf) (.ps)
  • List of (La)TeX Mathematical Symbols (.pdf) (.ps)

• Presentations using LaTeX or LaTeX+Powerpoint
  • latex_talk.tar.gz a gzipped tar file containing a latex template and related material that I use for electronic presentations with LaTeX.
  • TeXPoint - A LaTeX add-in for Powerpoint by George Necula.

• BibTeX
  • BibTeX allows you to maintain a single literature database and use it to add references to all your LaTeX projects. To learn more, consult one of the many LaTeX introductions (such as Simplified Introduction to LaTeX by Harvey Greenberg) with a section on BiBTeX.
  • The file references.bib.gz contains a large collection of references in bibtex format that I use for my research. If you add entries, please follow my template and send me an e-mail with the references you have added. I will then include them into references.bib and post the updated version.

    If you use LaTeX on the CAAM Unix machines, I suggest that you save references.bib in the subdirectory texmf/bibtex inside your home directory. Add the lines

    setenv TEXINPUTS $HOME/texmf/tex: # search path for style files
    setenv BSTINPUTS $HOME/texmf/tex: # search path for .bst files
    setenv BIBINPUTS $HOME/texmf/bibtex: # search path for .bib files
    

    to your ~/.cshrc file (on the CAAM machines you should add these lines to ~/.rc/cshrc.common). After you have done this (and 'sourced' ~/.cshrc) you can use

    \bibliography{references}
    \bibliographystyle{plain} % this can be replaced by any other bib style
    

    in your LaTeX file. BibTeX will look into $HOME/texmf/bibtex for references.bib (thus you need to maintain only one copy of references.bib).