Meeting 11

Aus Java Student User Group Austria - Java + JVM in Wien Österreich / Vienna Austria
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When: Monday, February 23rd, 2009 - 19:00 (end approx. 21:00)

Where: Freihaus HS4


TeX ... sooner or later you will have to know it ;)

TeX Days

Special event dealing with TeX basics because of the DANTE conference which will be in the same week (Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th February) at the Vienna University of Technology (EI10).

Topics covered: Beamer class, powerdot, TeXworks, interactive PDFs, biblatex, LuaTeX, MPLib, ...


There will be a lottery ("gewinnspiel") at the end of the evening where you can win a special LaTeX related thingy -but only if you have carefully payed attention to the presentations :)
Many thanks to the Zid logo.png (Zentraler Informatik Dienst) for this sponsoring.

Speakers

  • Preining Norbert (Vienna University Of Technology) ... general introduction to tex
  • Pickl Christoph (JSUG) ... html output with htlatex, producing slides with beamer class, calculating with fp
  • Schürrer Martin (JSUG) ... layouting with memoir class


Agenda

  1. Overview, History and TeXLive
  2. Quickintro to LaTeX for Beginners
  3. How does it work in the background?
  4. Layouting with the memoir class
  5. HTML-output with htlatex, producing slides with beamer class
  6. Lottery

Open questions for DANTE TeXperts

  1. Why do fonts not look that nice in beamer slides than e.g. in keynote slides? (font rendering/hinting?)
  2. ...

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