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Specialized

§ 17:  LaTeX for Scientific Documents


The LaTeX package (which is really a macro package composed of primitive TeX commands) is commonly used for its high quality typesetting of even complicated equations. Because it is of high quality, yet with highly transportable and compact source code, it is also used by some journals and book publishers for their publications.

After creating a LaTeX document, you can convert it to postscript for high quality printing, convert it to HTML for a Web document or, of course, send the source code to your favorite journal for publication. We will discuss:

  1. Viewing and Printing LaTeX Documents
  2. Creating LaTeX Documents
  3. Converting LaTeX to HTML for Web Documents

    Note: The commands used in this section are only available on Solaris machines like weasel. Thus, since you probably want to view the results of your work as you go along, you might want to establish an ssh-connection or an XWin32 session to weasel before you start. This way, you can run commands which use X-Windows to view your output on the screen.


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