LaTeX

• Contents

  1. LaTeX
  2. TeX/LaTeX Documentation
  3. UZH Style Templates
     1. Letter
     2. Presentation
     3. Working with Templates on the I-MATH Terminals
     4. 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. installation of required packages and prepare installation
           2. Installing the Arial Font
           3. Letter Templates
           4. Beamer Templates
  4. UZH Logo
  5. Tips and tricks
     1. Count words in a latex document
     2. kdvi
     3. Custom paper size
     4. Looking for a symbol
     5. Converting .eps-files (automatically) to .pdf-files
     6. Include a movie in a PDF Document
        1. Example
  6. Graphic / Drawing
     1. xfig
     2. inkscape
  7. Kile
     1. Path setting
  8. Access: restrictions
  9. Converting Latex to Word (and more)

TeX/LaTeX Documentation

• A short introduction to LaTeX: https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf

  • Based on the original German edition found here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/german

UZH Style Templates

The UZH offers LaTeX templates with official corporate design. Below you can find versions of these templates adapted for the Institute of Mathematics.

Letter

The UZH Letter style is based on the KOMA Letter package. Documentation: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/scrlttr2

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

Direct downloads of the letter 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

Direct downloads of the persentation templates:

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

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

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

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

Working with Templates on the I-MATH Terminals

If you are working with the I-MATH Terminals, you can also find the official LaTeX templates linked above at /scratch/templates/latex. Copy the desired template to your home directory, or any other suitable location (Do not edit the files in /scratch/templates/latex) and edit it with your favorite LaTeX editor.

Installation of Corporate Design Templates

You have to perform the steps below only when using the LaTeX on your Notebook or Personal Computer.

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 (access). 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 (access). 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 the Ubuntu package texlive-fonts-extra installed:

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

If there is no getnonfreefonts :

cd /var/tmp
curl -O http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts/install-getnonfreefonts
texlua install-getnonfreefonts
getnonfreefonts --sys arial-urw

Letter Templates

• Download the LaTeX Letter templates from math www (access).

• 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 (access).

• 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

installation of required packages and prepare installation

• Download and install the latest MacTeX. MacTeX can be obtained here.

• next, you need to install the required fonts.

• before this can be performed, you need to set the correct installation path. Please open a terminal and type export PATH="/Library/TeX/texbin/:$PATH"

• Download the installer "install-getnonfreefonts" to i.e. the Downloads directory: getnonfreefonts can be obtained here

  • assuming the terminal is still open, please navigate (cd) into the directory containing the downloaded file

  • type sudo texlua install-getnonfreefonts

  • do not close the terminal, as we need it for the next steps

Installing the Arial Font

• in the terminal type now:

• sudo getnonfreefonts --sys arial-urw

  • The font Arial will be downloaded
• next, in order to install the fonts run this command in the same terminal

• updmap-user

Further notes can be found:

• http://www.tug.org/mactex/TeXLive2018+Changes.pdf

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 (you need administrative privileges to perform this task and you will be asked to enter your password).

Run sudo mktexlsr in a terminal 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 (you need administrative privileges to perform this task and you will be asked to enter your password).

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

• note: all sudo introduced command requires a password to perform the action

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.

Tips and tricks

Count words in a latex document

Kile: File > Statistics

kdvi

• KDVI

Custom paper size

\documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
\usepackage{amssymb,latexsym}
\usepackage{graphicx, pgf, pst-all}

\usepackage[paperwidth=17truecm, paperheight=24truecm, centering, twoside, margin=1.58cm,heightrounded]{geometry}

\textwidth14truecm
\textheight20truecm

Looking for a 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 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

Graphic / Drawing

xfig

• old, powerful and strange

• http://www.xfig.org/userman/latex_and_xfig.html

inkscape

• modern drwaing application

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

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

• e.g.:

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.

Access: restrictions

• Some files are copyright protected. To access such files (links named 'math www'), you have to provide your I-MATH credentials.

Converting Latex to Word (and more)

• Overview: http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html