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GNUPLOT+TikZ For Stunning LaTeX Plots. When it comes to graphics in my publications and presentations, I have incredibly high standards.

GNUPLOT+TikZ For Stunning LaTeX Plots.

I do most of my documents and slides in LaTeX. So when I create plots, I demand that plotting software that has sophisticated integration with LaTeX and the ability to create stunning and clean visuals. For me, that software is without a doubt GNUPLOT. GNUPLOT has a range of terminals that work with LaTeX, including a LaTeX terminal. If you’re using system fonts and XeLaTeX, then the pdf terminal can do a very nice job, but if you’re using fonts in your document that are installed with LaTeX, then only one terminal can suit my standards: the TikZ terminal. How to make a presentation with Latex - Introduction to Beamer - Latex. Installing the Beamer class You will first need to install the package Beamer.

How to make a presentation with Latex - Introduction to Beamer - Latex

Under Debian or Ubuntu, you can type the following command: # apt-get install latex-beamer Once the latex-class Beamer is installed, you are definitely ready to stat your first presentation!!! Basic presentation with Beamer. A Survey of Free Math Fonts for TeX and LaTeX1. Note: This survey is also available in PDF format.

A Survey of Free Math Fonts for TeX and LaTeX1

Contents Introduction Fonts Originally Designed for TeX. Beamer Theme Matrix. Dia. Welcome to Dia's homepage.

Dia

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Unix, and Windows, and is released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio,' though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. Tikzedt - A semigraphical Tikz-editor. Temporarily disabled the OSX download.

tikzedt - A semigraphical Tikz-editor

(There have been problems I have to fix first.) TeXample.net. LaTeX/General Guidelines. During this guide we have seen what is possible to do and how this can be achieved, but the question is: I want to write a proper text with LaTeX, what to do then?

LaTeX/General Guidelines

Where should I start from? This is a short step-by-step guide about how to start a document properly, keeping a good high-level structure. This is all about organizing your files using the modular capabilities of LaTeX. This way it will be very easy to make modifications even when the document is almost finished. The Ipe extensible drawing editor. Book Typography.

Typographical Details The book is written in Plain TeX in order to maximize control over the output.

Book Typography

The fonts are from the Lucida Bright family, the same fonts that are used in the A.M.S. Notices. To me these look much better than TeX's default Computer Modern family which seems too light on the page when printed on a high-quality printer. Unfortunately the Lucida Bright fonts must be purchased, and the price is not trivial. The drawings in the book are done using Adobe Illustrator and inserted as eps files. The commutative diagrams (with all the horizontal, vertical, and diagonal arrows) were also done using Adobe Illustrator. The chapter and section headings were also created with Adobe Illustrator. TeX Details. How to fake LaTeX in Microsoft Word 2007. Ever seen those sweet research papers with that awesome font?

How to fake LaTeX in Microsoft Word 2007

LaTeX Style and BiBTeX Bibliography Formats for Biologists: TeX and LaTeX Resources. By Tom Schneider Can your word processor do these?

LaTeX Style and BiBTeX Bibliography Formats for Biologists: TeX and LaTeX Resources

Examples from The TeX showcase. LatexHelp. LaTeX is a system of typesetting mathematical notation. You enter LaTeX markup language in a plain text file, and then typeset it using the program pdflatex . You can do this by hand (invoking pdflatex from a command line) but all three major platforms have GUI LaTeX editors available that will do syntax coloring on your LaTeX document and also invoke the typesetter for you. We highly recommend that you get a GUI editor; it will make your life less painful. Writing NIH Grant Application in LaTeX. J.

Writing NIH Grant Application in LaTeX

Hrabe Magalien, LLC Unlike NSF, the NIH does not seem to expect that grant applications (RO1, RO3, R21, ...) could be written in LaTeX. However, it appears possible to do so, fulfilling all NIH requirements and avoiding the horrors of MS Word or annoyances of OpenOffice. The submission SF424 package is contained in a single and rather fragile PDF file (click gently, wait, hope, wait, ...) where form fields are filled and many other PDF files with various bits of information are attached. Almost any of those files can be prepared in LaTeX but this guide is only concerned with the Abstract, Narrative, Specific Aims, Research Strategy, and References. The NIH guidelines (as of February 2011) require Palatino font, 11 points or larger, typeset in black.

As shown above, I used the SCfigure to place a figure (usually half a page wide) and its caption next to each other to save space. For individual specific aims, and also for references, I use the "description" environment: LaTeX. This is a guide to the LaTeX markup language. It is intended to form a useful resource for everybody from new users who wish to learn, to old hands who need a quick reference. TeX and LaTeX TeX is a computer program for typesetting documents, created by Donald Knuth.

It takes a suitably prepared computer file and converts it to a form which may be printed on many kinds of printers, including dot-matrix printers, laser printers and high-resolution typesetting machines. LaTeX is a set of macros for TeX that aims at reducing the user's task to the sole role of writing the content, LaTeX taking care of all the formatting process. The book is organized in different parts. Getting Started will provide you with the very first steps to print your first document: general concepts (very important!) Contents[edit] Classicthesis. This section is devoted to a template bundle which I developed for the typesetting system LaTeX. The first version of the template was released in early 2006. From the feedback and postcards I received so far, it seems to be in heavy use all over the world! Note: This software is released under the GNU General Public License. The LyX port of classicthesis is maintained by Nick Mariette and Ivo Pletikosić. Thanks, Nick and Ivo!

Classic Thesis for LyX. Latex cheat sheet. Detexify. Want a Mac app? ScribTeX. LaTeX for NIH Grant Applications. If you are a computer scientist, you'll want to use LaTeX. Some NIH folks are using LaTeX these days: Here is a great site from Dr. Schneider's lab at NIH describing the advantages of LaTeX over Word for your proposal.

Quick start: Here is the "blank" version for use with electronic submissions to NIH. Almost all NIH grant applications use this format, so the "blank" format plus the bio sketch is pretty much what you need to write your grant.