1 Lyx (demo)

• math on the fly
• math from latex original
• tables
• cv and slide classes accessed through Layout->Document->Document Class
• free versions for linux, windows, UNIX: www.lyx.org

2 Style files

• on the web
• on journal homepages
• slides
  • seminar
  • prosper
• biblio style files (.bst)
• \usepackage{pack_name} - if .sty file is in current directory or latex knows the path
• \usepackage{$HOME/latex/pack_name}

3 Figures

• various packages for including graphics
• postscript bounding box manipulations
  • ps2epsi
  • manually within the postscript file
    %%BoundingBox: 162 288 450 504
    (gv shows you the coordinates as you move cursor in figure)
  • may need to use the clip argument when including the graphics
• general manipulating of postscript figures (demo - /research/storms/sims/writeup/corr.eps)
  • change size, location, font within postscript

4 Creating pdf and html docs

• pdf files
  • pdflatex
    • \usepackage[pdftex]{graphics}
    • create graphs in pdf - in R: pdf("file.pdf")
  • dvips
    • dvips -Ppdf -G0 file.tex
    • ps2pdf file.ps
    • check that you use type I fonts (in Acrobat (Windows only?) "file" -> "Document Properties" -> "Fonts")
    • (\usepackage{times}) ???
• html files (latex2html)
  • latex2html creates tree structures based on sections and subsections
  • -no_subdir argument creates one html document (like this one)

5 Making URL and internal links

• URLs in pdf files
  • hyperref package (\usepackage{hyperref})
  • External link syntax: \href{url}{text}
  • Internal link syntax: \hyperlink{label}{text} AND \hypertarget{label}{target}
• URLs in html
  • html package (\usepackage{html})
  • External link syntax: \htmlnormallink{text}{url}
  • Internal link syntax \htmlref{text}{latex_label}
    • examples

6 Bibtex

• create a .bib bibliography
  • xemacs file.bib
  • directly download .bib formatted references from Current Index to Statistics
• find an appropriate bibliography style (.bst file)
  • \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,} - check the .bst file for hints
• cite your references (exact formats vary by style - look through the .bst file)
  • \cite{Samp:etal:2001} - Sampson et al. (2001)
  • (\citenp{Samp:etal:2001}) - (Sampson et al. 2001)
  • (\citenp[p. 16]{Samp:etal:2001}) - (Sampson et al. 2001, p. 16)
• include your reference section at the end:
  • \bibliographystyle{$HOME/latex/asa}
  • \bibliography{$HOME/bibfiles/smoothing,$HOME/bibfiles/pointprocess}
• compile: latex file; bibtex file; bibtex file; latex file; latex file

7 Open discussion...

About this document ...

This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator Version 2002 (1.62)

Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, Ross Moore, Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.

The command line arguments were:
latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers /tmp/lyx_tmpdir357wiyaOU/lyx_tmpbuf0/present.tex

The translation was initiated by Chris Paciorek on 2004-02-20