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TeXworks. Jonathan Kew, Stefan Löffler, Charlie Sharpsteen News (Apr 2013) TeXworks 0.4.5 released (Get it | Changes) (Apr 2012) TeXworks 0.4.4 released (Changes) (Jun 2011) TeXworks 0.4.3 released (Changes) (Jun 2011) TeXworks 0.4.2 released (Changes) (May 2011) TeXworks 0.4.1 released (Changes) (Mar 2011) TeXworks 0.4.0 released (Changes) (Oct 2009) TeXworks 0.2.3 released (Oct 2009) TeXworks 0.2.2 released (Oct 2009) TeXworks 0.2.1 released (Sep 2009) TeXworks 0.2.0 released (Changes) Introduction The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today’s major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (XP/Vista/7), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, as well as Mac OS X.

It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch’s award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X, which is credited with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac platform. Getting TeXworks You can get binaries for the following platforms: Documentation. Directory: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir. LaTeX Poster Template. Introduction A LaTeX template to efficently design pretty posters for scientific conferences.

LaTeX Poster Template

Posters are composited of blocks with headings, which can be positioned easily on the page, using absolute or relative positioning. A number of predefined styles can be composed to generate new color schemes and ornaments. News Documentation There is a rudimentary documentation in the package. Bugs There probably are some, they are tracked at the baposter bugtracker. Hints Use this class with pdflatex, pslatex probably wont work, though I never tried.

I have confirmed that this package works with texlive 2007 miktex 2.7 It does not seem to work with miktex 2.2 some old versions of tetex if in doubt, try to install a new version of the PGF library. This class also needs a modern version of xkeyvals. Keys ! See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. L.130 \define@cmdkey[ba]{poster}[b aposter@]{grid} [no] ... then your xkeyvals package is too old. Examples. Introduction to TeX. Beginners' Introduction to TeX and its Use by Eric Schechter, version of 13 Oct 2005 This page is intended only to give a very brief overview of Latex, but it includes links to more information; you can choose which of those links you need to follow.

Introduction to TeX

Some of this page assumes you're using Windows, but much of this page is platform-independent -- i.e., applying equally well to Unix, Macintosh, and other operating systems. Readers of this page may also be interested in our web pages about free TeX software available for Windows computers and how to use TeX on our department's Unix computers. Outline of this page: What is (La)TeX? TeX -- in its various flavors, including LaTeX (explained below) -- is a typesetting language. Tex is the standard language used by nearly all mathematicians nowadays. Some of the basic terminology is confusing, because some of the basic terms are often used interchangeably. Plain TeX, originally just called "TeX", is the original version, created by Donald Knuth.

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