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Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:21 pm
by slacky
Really helpful for this year when I have to type piles and piles of essays.
I'm going to add this to the list of things I need to try out.
It seems like with a little tweaking this could save me a lot of time, which is good, seeing as how busy I am these days.
Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:27 pm
by maso
^^
slacky: install gummi right away. it compiles LaTeX code on the fly and shows the results in an adjoining pane. Really useful for learning.
if anyone's interested, I could dig up some links about beamer (the popular presentation package for LaTeX) that I've
found useful for making lecture slides that suit my needs as an instructor.
When I'm short on time and need a quick set of lecture slides fast, I turn to pandoc, which will convert markdown text
directly into a pdf of beamer slides. The slides thus rendered are really basic -- no images or graphic items included -- and not great to look at, but the job gets done fast. I just put my maps and images in another dwm tab and switch off and on as needed.
pandoc will also convert markdown to LaTeX, beamer or plain, which can then be edited to look pretty. If I remember rightly, it can even render beamer slides with the preset slide styles for beamer, but I don't really like those, or need their overly fussy structures.
There are LaTeX templates for almost any sort of document. I use one to format multiple choice questions. It has saved me hours and hours of fuss.
Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 1:42 am
by slacky
maso wrote:^^
slacky: install gummi right away. it compiles LaTeX code on the fly and shows the results in an adjoining pane. Really useful for learning.
There are LaTeX templates for almost any sort of document. I use one to format multiple choice questions. It has saved me hours and hours of fuss.
Thanks for the advice!
I will look into both of them :)
Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 2:13 am
by dkeg
I used gummi. My papers earned top marks!
Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:08 am
by wuxmedia
dkeg wrote:I used gummi. My papers earned top marks!
More likely the substance, rather than the style ;)
Although with your design eye it would not surprise me to learn they made a special section for extra grades, wow nice font etc...
Re: LaTeX Basics
Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 11:52 am
by GekkoP
Don't know if this could be helpful, but I'll just share it. If you want to use vanilla TeXLive, here we go:
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wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
tar -xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
cd `tar -tzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz | sed -e 'N;s/^\(.*\).*\n\1.*$/\1\n\1/;D'`
sudo ./install-tl
mkdir -p /opt
sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2015/bin/* /opt/texbin
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends equivs
mkdir -p /tmp/tl-equivs && cd /tmp/tl-equivs
wget http://www.tug.org/texlive/files/debian-equivs-2015-ex.txt
/bin/cp -f debian-equivs-2015-ex.txt texlive-local
equivs-build texlive-local
sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2015-1_all.deb
This comes from an answer on SO, IIRC.