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Revision 49 as of 2010-11-12 09:23:21

LaTeX

TeX/LaTeX Documentation

UZH Style Templates

Letter

The official LaTeX templates for correspondence are located at /scratch/templates/latex/korrespondenz/.

Copy the desired template to your home directory (see below for a preview of each template), or any other suitable location (Do not edit the files in /scratch/templates/latex/korrespondenz/) and edit it with your favorite LaTeX editor.

Preview of templates:

  • UZH Brief deutsch mit Absender (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Brief deutsch ohne Absender (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Letter English with Sender (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Letter English without Sender (pdf) (ps) (tex)

Please replace the text enclosed by angle brackets (<>) with the appropriate information.

Presentation

The official LaTeX templates for correspondence are located at /scratch/templates/latex/praesentation/.

Copy the desired template to your home directory (see below for a preview of each template), or any other suitable location (Do not edit the files in /scratch/templates/latex/praesentation/) and edit it with your favorite LaTeX editor.

  • UZH Praesentation deutsch (informell) (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Praesentation deutsch (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Presentation English (informal) (pdf) (ps) (tex)

  • UZH Presentation English (pdf) (ps) (tex)

Installation of Corporate Design Templates

Windows

This instruction assumes that the latest MikTeX is installed including KOMA-Script, lastpage, mptopdf, and arial package. In order to ensure you're running the latest version or installing missing packages, start the MikTeX Package Administrator found under Start|All Programs|MikTeX X.Y|Maintenance (Admin)|Package Manager (Admin) and run the Update Wizard found under Task|Update Wizard. Please refer to the MikTeX Documentation for further information on this topic by pointing your browser to http://www.miktex.org/docs.

Letter Templates

Download the LaTeX templates Vorlagen_UZH_LaTeX_Briefe.zip from https://www.uzh.ch/cdssl/cd/vorlagenboerse/downloads.html. Unzip the package, and copy the entire tex directory to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX X.Y\tex\latex and rename it to mathletter.

Go to Start|All Programs|MiKTeX X.Y|Maintenance (Admin)|Settings (Admin) and click in the first tab on Refresh FNDB.

Next you need to download uzh-en.lco and uzh.lco. Copy them to your mathletter directory.

Beamer Templates

Download the LaTeX templates Vorlagen_UZH_LaTeX_Praesentationen.zip from https://www.uzh.ch/cdssl/cd/vorlagenboerse/downloads.html. Unzip the package, and copy the entire tex directory to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX X.Y\tex\latex and rename it to 'mathbeamer'.

Go to Start|All Programs|MiKTeX X.Y|Maintenance (Admin)|Settings (Admin) and click in the first tab on Refresh FNDB.

Ubuntu

You need to have installed the following Ubuntu packages:

  • texlive-fonts-extra

In order to install the Arial font type on a command line: sudo getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw

Letter Templates

Download the LaTeX templates Vorlagen_UZH_LaTeX_Briefe.zip from https://www.uzh.ch/cdssl/cd/vorlagenboerse/downloads.html. Unzip the package, and copy the entire tex directory to /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex and rename it to mathletter. Download http://mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tds.zip and save it to /usr/local/share/texmf/ and unzip the file in that directory.

Run sudo mktexlsr in order to update the search database of latex.

Next you need to download uzh-en.lco and uzh.lco. Copy them to your /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/mathletter directory.

Beamer Templates

Download the LaTeX templates Vorlagen_UZH_LaTeX_Praesentationen.zip from https://www.uzh.ch/cdssl/cd/vorlagenboerse/downloads.html. Unzip the package, and copy the entire tex directory to /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex and rename it to mathbeamer.

Run sudo mktexlsr in order to update the search database of latex.

MacOS X

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Frequently used questions and programs

Count words in a latex documents

Kile: File > Statistics

kdvi

Tips and tricks

Converting .eps-files (automatically) to .pdf-files

Include a movie in a PDF Document

Example: omega.tex omega.mpg omega.pdf 

[user@host] pdflatex omega.tex

View the PDF File in Acrobat Reader. It probably won't work on the Sun Ray Terminals.

Example

  • movie.tex 

\documentclass[12pt,landscape]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper}
\usepackage{movie15}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Whispering-gallery mode in a quarter circle:
\begin{figure}[ht]

\includemovie[
  poster,
  text={\small(2-twist-spun.mp4)}
]{6cm}{4.8cm}{2-twist-spun.mp4}

\end{figure}
\end{document}

pdflatex movie.tex

Kile

Path setting

Kile users should make sure, that under Settings|Configure Kile|Tools|Build for LaTeX and PDFLaTeX the command is /usr/sepp/bin/latex resp. /usr/sepp/bin/pdflatex.

Converting LaTeX to HTML, XML, OpenOffice, Word

# Create an  OpenOffice File
mk4ht oolatex filename.tex

  • Open 'filename.odt' in OpenOffice and save it as Microsoft Word/97 file.