Latex
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Here are some helpful LaTeX resources. Please add material that you think is useful.
- Latex Cheat Sheet: this is a helpful sheet of common latex syntax. Very useful for beginners.
- Latex Symbols
- Latex Tables
- Using Latex with this Wiki: Short answer, put TeX equations inside <math> </math> For example,
, or perhaps you prefer eiπ + 1 = 0.
Style/Class Files
- Revtex Guide: Revtex is the latex package used by the APS journals.
- IEEE Latex Style Files: the style files used for IEEE Transactions journals.
Beamer
See this blog entry about my enthusiasm for Beamer. Beamer is a LaTeX package which makes more structured talks with internal hyperlinks which make navigation in the talk much easier. Beamer also makes it very easy to structure your talk in a way the audience (and the speaker) can see so one knows where in the talk one is. This package is highly recommended. See the latex-beamer page on sourceforge.
Beamerposter is an extension of beamer that allows you to make posters.
Prosper
Prosper allows you to make beautiful presentations in LaTeX. The main benefit is that it produces PDF files that can be presented EXACTLY as you created them on any pdf viewer on any platform, and you can cut and paste material from your LaTeX papers into your presentations and vice versa (this saves you time from having to do everything twice).
As an example, see the talk I gave at the MIT Spamconference: here. You can use the Makefile to build the talk. Just download all the material and type "make".
Here are two helpful pages on Prosper:
