LaTeX at ISY

Originally written by Tex-admin group at ISY.

General

At ISY primarily TeX-live is used, but for Windows MikTeX is also recommended.
Mac-TeX is a variate of the TeX-live for Mac OS X.

Tips and help

A good introduction to LaTeX

The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX by Tobias Oetiker Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl.

Creating a PDF from your LaTeX document

The normal way is to run:

 pdflatex

In exceptional cases you may have to go through postscript. Here's an example of when you arrange a pdf in size S5 with scalable fonts to a printing house:

dvips -Ppdf -T165mm,240mm yourfile.dvi o yourfile.ps
ps2pdf yourfile.ps

Images in Matlab

To get the right size of the images in Matlab preferably do as follows (8x3cm):

set (gcf, 'PaperPosition', [0 0 8 3])

This sets the print size on a plot with PaperPosition. It can also be used to make a wider plot. This also makes the difference in font size. The smaller PaperPostion the larger font, default is about 20x15, which is far too large for most print jobs.

The use of (X)Emacs for editing documents LaTeX

AUCTeX installed to support LaTeX writing in (X)Emacs. AUCTeX is a comprehensive extension to Emacs for writing (La)TeX documents, see manual. In AUCTeX you have RefTeX, that provides great support for labels, references, and the construction of indexes, and Preview-LaTeX, that makes it possible to embed typeset mathematics and figures in the emacs buffer. Preview-LaTeX requires emacs version 21.1.

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