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Where to get LATEX Technical Requirements whether its a manual for your customers, an article for a
The TEX Users Group (TUG) distributes a free copy of Operating systems
computer and produces timely, journal, a book for a publisher, or a newsletter for your club or
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the TEX Live CD-ROM and a free copy of the entire

LATEX runs on all current computing platforms. The most
accurate, publication-quality society.
CTAN archive on CD-ROM to all members annually.
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common implementations are: output on desktop printers and LATEX is a typesetting system for the production of high-

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similar: check with your nearest group (see TUG Web Operating System Implementation
commercial typesetters. quality documents, based on Don Knuths revolutionary
site for addresses). TEX program. Its been in use by millions since its launch
Microsoft Windows Free: fpTEX, MikTEX, Lyx Its completely free, and has
All the public-domain and open-source implementa- Commercial: see adjacent list
in 1978, and has been continuously updated to bring you
been the tried and tested
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tions are available for free download from CTAN. the state of the art in accuracy and flexibility.
MS-DOS Free: emTEX, sbTEX
solution for over 20 years. LATEX More powerful than a wordprocessor or desktop publish-
You can buy a copy with commercial support from any Amiga Commercial: AmigaTEX

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of the vendors listed below. Linux & other Unix Free: teTEX, Lyx ing system, LATEX has a host of unique features which
(RPMs available) documentation specialists, and can dramatically cut time and cost from any publishing
TUG Apple Macintosh Shareware: OZTEX project.
technical and academic users
TUG membership for 2001 is $65 a year for individuals, $35 Commercial: Textures Its secret is programmability: a host of prewritten tem-
worldwide.

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for students and OAPs, and $75 for non-member subscrip- Mainframes and Contact the TEX Users Group plate packages handle almost any formatting task, and you
tions to publications only. See http://www.tug.org for details Supercomputers for details (see alongside) can define your own with the built-in styling language.
of discounts and other charges. Institutional rates for 2001 What they say about LATEX
You only have to say once how any item appears, and
are $500, which includes up to seven individual member- Hardware I was getting increasingly exasperated with the limi-
ships. Membership includes the quarterly journal TUGboat, tations presented by wordprocessing programs when
all further examples then follow your pattern, giving it
and discounts off conferences and training courses. LATEX will run even on quite old machines, but a LATEX came into my life and allowed me to do all unrivalled consistency the key to professional-looking
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unusual symbols to complicated layout. I strongly
CTAN You should have at least 32Mb of memory, more if
recommend it to anybody interested in producing a
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ternet archive of all TEX and LATEX software. There is You need approximately 300Mb of hard disk space Petra Hellmuth, Roinn na Sean & Men Ghaelge
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I use pdfLATEX and not only because
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Internet-based support uses the comp.text.tex Usenet news- is to be displayed. I have a lecture class from
typesetting equipment.
group (available in German as de.comp.text.tex). There which I generate a lecture presentation and lec-
ture notes all from the same source: I can add
is also a two-monthly email newsletter, the TEXhax Di- Software text which appears in one or both of the docu-
gest, and some extensive FAQs listed at http://www.tug.org/
ments. Marc van Dongen, Computer Science
tex-ptr-faq . You need an editor for maintaining your documents:
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TUG runs an annual conference (2001: Delaware) and there is a selection included on the TEX Live CD-ROM.
the European local user groups run a EuroTEX conference A copy of GhostScript/GSview or similar is needed to
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Electronic Publishing Unit Let this leaflet convince you, then get in touch with your
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Blue Sky, Inc Textures Mac http://www.bluesky.com be downloaded from www.adobe.com .

K-Talk, Inc Converters 4th Floor, Kane Building
MacKichan Software Win
http://www.ktalk.com
(email [email protected])
address in panel). They will be happy to discuss your require-
Scientific Word http://www.mackichan.com A graphics editor or manipulation program is needed
ments. Youre also very welcome to come to any of the User
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PCTEX, Inc PCTEX Win http://www.pctex.com if you want to create or modify images. The Irish TEX And LATEX Interest Community is at
Radical Eye, Inc AmigaTEX Amiga http://radicaleye.com http://listserv.heanet.ie/italic-l.html Group events and meet other users.
TrueTEX, Inc TrueTEX Win http://truetex.com
Y&Y, Inc Y&YTEX Win http://www.yandy.com

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plaintext (ASCII) and can be edited Tabular matter, figures, Formal tables are automatically numbered, and that no matter how much you edit the text, the num-
and processed on any platform, even and other notations can be captioned, labelled, crossreferenced, and bers remain correct. The same principle applies to
over a network. added to a List of Tables at the front of the document. the automated indexing, glossary, table of contents, Documentation
LATEXs tables and figures follow standard publishers The tabular matter within them can span pages and list of figures, list of tables, and bibliographic refer-
practice of floating, so if there is no room on the can be printed landscape (sideways) while retaining ences. [1] Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander
I find LATEX a powerful instrument for current page, they automatically move to the next. the portrait (upright) orientation of the caption and The BIBTEX bibliographic database lets you keep Samarin. The LATEX Companion. Addison-Wesley,
generating elaborate typographic layouts The automated crossreferencing system means that pagenumber. all your references separately from your documents, Reading, MA, 1st edition, 1994.
quickly and reliably. They are available for tables and figures can be moved around the docu- Simple tabular matter can appear anywhere, and but have them extracted and automatically formatted
revision for years afterwards, without ment and will always renumber themselves and all
worries about software versions or
stays where it is put (does not float like a formal ta- to any of the standard styles, using numeric, in-text, [2] Donald Knuth. The TEXbook. Addison-Wesley, Read-
their points of reference accordingly. ble). footnote, or endnote methods. ing, MA, 1986.
compatibility. LATEX is demanding in its There are powerful controls for tabular settings, al- Figures can contain textual or graphical illustra-
requirements but it relieves me of any lowing both simple and complex designs, with fixed X
concern about the finished project.
tions. Pictures can be included with scaling, rotation, E
[3] Leslie Lamport. LATEX, a document preparation system.
or auto-adjusting spacing, row and column spans, 120
Samus Direin, Roinn na Nua Ghaeilge
and clipping: normal LATEX uses the industry stan- Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2nd edition, 1994.
and colouring. Cells, rows, and columns can be dard Encapsulated PostScript format, while pdfLATEX
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aligned L/R/C and on a decimal point, or format- uses JPG, PNG, or PDF graphics. The ImageMag- Spending
ted as paragraphs. The inter-row gap can be very ick graphics manipulation package is included on the Variance The book by Lamport is the user manual for LATEX: make
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(thousands) Efficiency Variance ion is more advanced, but useful if you want to implement
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setting musical notation, electronic circuit diagrams, TEXbook is of interest to typographic programmers who
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tion, chapter, page, list item), and then use that (thousands) Typography.
All samples 2 2 4 23 65
name anywhere in the document.
Aitchison, J. and J.A.C. Brown, The Lognormal Distribution, CUP, 1976, p. 62. Each crossreference is automatically updated so R.J. Bull, Accounting in Business, Butterworths, 2nd. ed., 1972, p. 191.