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