Typesetting technical documents: LaTeX

LaTeX is an easy to learn typesetting engine that is very useful for generating high-quality documents, and in particular, documents with mathematical symbols, tables, and figures.

Tutorials & General Documentation:

• CTAN: Not so Short Intro to LaTex2e
• LaTeX Harvard Math Dept: An Introduction to Latex
• Wikibooks: LaTeX/Document Structure

Installation:

• CTAN: Managing a one-person TeX system

Add-on Packages and Classes:

• AMS LaTeX: Additional symbols and environments from the American Mathematics Society AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX
• RevTeX: Used by the journals from the American Physical Society APS - REVTeX 4 Home Page

Integrated Development Environments:

• Kile: a LaTeX IDE for KDE Sourceforge: Kile: An Integrated LaTeX Environment

Presentations:

• Beamer presentation class: Beamer The LaTeX Beamer Class Homepage

Posters:

• a0poster

Graphics

Mathematical Graphics:

Making figures for papers can sometimes be a time-consuming hassle. Asymptote is a handy command-line or script processing engine for making mathematical graphics.

• Asymptote

  • "mathgraphic.sh" shell script

• Graphics of LaTeX expressions:

  • Hamline: LaTeX Equation Editor
  • Mac Equation Editor

PDF and EPS tools:

TeX distributions provide several command-line tools for converting and modifying PDF and EPS files. The PDF toolkit is very handy for manipulating PDF documents

Graphics conversion and modification:

ImageMagick provides many command-line tools to manipulating graphics files, switching formats, etc.

Graphics editing:

Vector graphics: Pixel-based graphics: GiMP

Managing References: BibTeX

BibTeX specifies a format for bibliography files and integrates with LaTeX documents

• BibTeX:

  • Getting to Grips with Latex - Bibliography Mgmt
  • Harvard: How to use Bibtex
  • CSU Chico: The BibTeX Format

• JabRef: Sourceforge: Jabref Reference Manager

Linux

• Ubuntu:

  • Ubuntu.com
  • Ubuntu forums

• Shell Information:

  • Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  • GNU Bash - Table of Contents

Programming Tools

• Version management: Subversion

  • Wikipedia: Subversion (software)
  • SVN Tutorial for Unix
  • SVN Tutorial
  • Version Control with Subversion

• Compilation control: Make

  • Caltech: Make Tutorial
  • Make - a tutorial: U-Hawaii
  • GNU make - Table of Contents

Web Publising

Templating / Markup:

• Rest2Web:

Content Management:

• Joomla: Joomla!

Windows:

• Cygwin

• TortiseSVN: Wikipedia: TortoiseSVN

• MikTeX: MiKTeX Home

• TeXnicCenter:

  • Sourceforge.net: TeXnicCenter
  • TeXnicCenter: The TeXnicCenter Cookbook for Auto-Completion