LaTeX

• Contents

  1. LaTeX
  2. TeX/LaTeX Documentation
  3. UZH Style Templates
     1. Letter
     2. Presentation
     3. Installation of Corporate Design Templates
        1. Windows
           1. Letter Templates
           2. Beamer Templates
        2. Ubuntu
           1. Letter Templates
           2. Beamer Templates
        3. MacOS X
           1. Installing the Arial Font
           2. Letter Templates
           3. Beamer Templates
  4. UZH Logo
  5. Frequently used questions and programs
     1. Count words in a latex documents
     2. kdvi
  6. Tips and tricks
     1. Looking for symbol
     2. Converting .eps-files (automatically) to .pdf-files
     3. Include a movie in a PDF Document
        1. Example
     4. Converting LaTeX to HTML, XML, OpenOffice, Word
  7. Grafic / Drawing
     1. xfig
     2. inkscape
  8. Kile
     1. Path setting
  9. Notes

TeX/LaTeX Documentation

• A short introduction to LaTeX (in German): http://developer.kde.org/~kdvi/DVI/l2kurz.dvi

UZH Style Templates

If you are working with the I-MATH SunRay Terminals, you can right away use the templates for letters and presentations provided below.

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.

Please make sure that the return address (Institute of Mathematics) is mentioned on the envelope!

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

You have to perform the steps below only when using the LaTeX on your Notebook or Personal Computer. If you are working with the I-MATH SunRay Terminals, see #Letter and #Presentation

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 Letter templates from math www (see Notes: 1). Unzip the package, and copy the entire nmathletter directory to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX X.Y\tex\latex.

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

Beamer Templates

Download the LaTeX Beamer templates from math www (see Notes: 1). Unzip the package, and copy the entire mathbeamer directory to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX X.Y\tex\latex.

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 Letter templates from math www (see Notes: 1). Unzip the package, and copy the entire nmathletter directory /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex. Download http://prdownload.berlios.de/koma-script3/koma-script-20120729.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.

Beamer Templates

Download the LaTeX Beamer templates from math www (see Notes: 1). Unzip the package, and copy the entire mathbeamer directory to /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex.

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

MacOS X

You need to have the latest MacTeX installed. MacTeX can be obtained here. Further, it is assumed you have installed getnonfreefonts (download and installation instructions can be found here).

Installing the Arial Font

Open a terminal and type

• getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw

(This requires administrator privileges). The Arial font will be downloaded and automagically installed.

Letter Templates

Download the LaTeX Letter templates from math www. Unzip the package, and copy the entire nmathletter directory /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local.

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

Beamer Templates

Download the LaTeX Beamer templates from math www. Unzip the package, and copy the entire mathbeamer directory to /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local.

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

UZH Logo

If you want to include the UZH logo in a LaTeX document, download this zip file. Read the README.pdf file for instructions.

Frequently used questions and programs

Count words in a latex documents

Kile: File > Statistics

kdvi

• KDVI

Tips and tricks

Looking for symbol

• http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

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

• epstopdf

Include a movie in a PDF Document

• movie15

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}

• To include a Youtube Flash movie, convert it to mp4:

  • Video example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIM9p6XOKo

  • Convert it online: http://keepvid.com

    • Download the MP4 version: http://keepvid.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6lIM9p6XOKo

• compile:

pdflatex movie.tex

• View in acrobat reader: movie.pdf

Converting LaTeX to HTML, XML, OpenOffice, Word

• TeX4HT: http://www.tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html

• Sun Ray: call the commandline utilities in a terminal.

• All possible filters: ls -l /usr/share/tex4ht

• Converting a LaTeX Document to MS Word:

# Create an  OpenOffice File
mk4ht oolatex filename.tex

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

Grafic / Drawing

xfig

• old, powerfull and strange

• lmgtfy (Google): http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xfig+latex

inkscape

• modern drwaing application

• http://famelis.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/latex-and-inkscape/

• http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LaTeX

• F.e.:

Save your image, eg as “image.svg”. In addition, in Inkscape go to the 
option File -> Save a Copy and chose PDF as your output format in the 
same folder as the SVG. In the PDF options popup that comes right after 
select the options:

  * PDF+LaTeX: Omit text in PDF and create LaTeX file
  * Export area is drawing

Save and go to your LaTeX document.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \def\svgwidth{\columnwidth} % sets the image width, this is optional
    \input{image.pdf_tex}
\end{figure}

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.

Notes

• 1) To access links named 'math www', you have to be inside of I-MATH or use a browser via http://institute.math.uzh.ch