[LUGSB] How many of you know LaTeX?

[Ehtesh Choudhury]

Do you use it for other things now that you know it? It really ought to be
taught, along with REPL testing and editor/IDE usage, in some lower level
classes. Would be more valuable to a CS student than UML, I think.

Haha, what happens in the case you have both a .eps and a .pdf  with the
same 'filename'?

Also, when did you start picking it up? Why isn't it more... interactive --
less compiling, more generating on the fly? Although I guess some variants
of LaTeX must do that by now?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Justin Seyster <justin at seyster.org> wrote:

> The learning curve can be steep.  It is fun though, and your results
> will look a lot nicer than anybody else's in the class.  Basically,
> LaTeX is easy to use until you hit one of the things it just doesn't
> want to do.  Then you have to either accept that you won't get exactly
> the output you want or tear you hear out for hours trying to figure out
> what magic incantation will soothe the great LaTeX deities.
>
> Here's a homework I submitted a while ago as a template.  It defines
> this cool "question" command!  I'm not sure where it came from (most
> likely it came from Professor Stark, who taught this particular class).
>
> I recommend Inkscape for including figures and diagrams.  (It's Free
> Software and available for all major platforms.)  First save your figure
> in Inkscape's native SVG format and then save a copy as EPS (if you are
> using the latex command) or PDF (if you are using the pdflatex command).
> Then you can insert the figure with:
>
> \begin{figure}
>  \center
>  \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{filename}
>  \caption{An impressive figure demonstrating my extensive knowledge.}
> \end{figure}
>
> Don't include the .eps or .pdf extension in the filename, LaTeX will
> infer the correct extension.  Also, you can change the 0.9 value to
> whatever size you want (as a fraction of the width of the text column).
>
> Finally, make sure to use lots of pompous wording, as in my example, so
> as to intimidate graders.
>        --Justin
>
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 15:27 -0400, Ehtesh Choudhury wrote:
> > Just wondering about the learning curve. I can do simple expressions
> > and stuff, but... I'm wondering if I should be using it for future
> > homeworks. It's more appropriate than handwriting, I think. But I was
> > wondering how certain things would be displayed... like diagrams? Do
> > you just include them as a reference to a file?
> >
> > Or maybe there's some nice simple homework outputting method that
> > involves minimal LaTeX, meaning, no worrying about uh... templates and
> > where things go (for the most part).
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