LaTeX Information

SFU Thesis

I'm writing my thesis using the csthesis template. I'm documenting any changes I make at the math dept wiki (SFU login required). At some point, I'll try to remember to submit these changes to the template.

Presentations

LaTeX-beamer

I’ve switched to LaTeX-beamer for creating presentations.

Here are some rough LaTeX-beamer templates/tutorials from LaTeX sessions at SFU:

2007-08-14: tutorial from the math summer school.
2005: beamer-demo.zip

Prosper

I used to use Prosper for my presentations. Before that I used FoilTeX. Here is a very rough prosper template.

Acadia University Thesis Template

This a LaTeX class file and template for creating a B.Sc. thesis that (hopefully) comforms to Acadia’s standards. It is based on a UBC template created by Anders G. S. Svensson (svensson[at]math.ubc.ca)

You can download it:

as a tar.gz archive.
as a zip archive.

Changelog:

[2003/05/08] Added \gradmonth and \gradyear options to thesis.tex.

You may also want to download a copy of my B.Sc. thesis from Acadia.

LaTeX Links

Please mail me (cbm[at]math.sfu.ca) if any of these have moved or are deadlinks.

First, obtain The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX by Tobias Oetiker, available from http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort. Last time I checked, the latest version was 4.00.
Bookmark this page, http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/ltx-2.html in your browser. This is a great reference particularly for looking up the details of a LaTeX command.
The LaTeX Tricks website, http://www.iam.ubc.ca/~newbury/tex/title.html, contains a lot of useful ways to things that are a little outside the scope of lshort.ps.
The “Hey - It Works!” archive at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/hiw contains many eclectic tips and tricks.
Some information about creating portable document format (pdf) files is available at http://www.p-joeckel.de/pdflatex. In particular there is some information about using latex->dvips->ps2pdf with seeing ugly fonts in the resulting pdf file!

Using LaTeX with Windows

The following software is useful for creating LaTeX documents with Microsoft Windows (you could also consider switching to a GNU/Linux system):

MiKTeX is an excellent TeX distribution for Windows.
GPL Ghostscript.
The GSview previewer.
TeXnicCenter is a decent LaTeX editor. There are many other similar editors but most I have seen are shareware, feel free to mail me if you’ve found a good editor (particularly if it is free software).