Meeting 11
Aus Java Student User Group Austria - Java + JVM in Wien Österreich / Vienna Austria
When: Monday, February 23rd, 2009 - 19:00 (end approx. 21:00)
Where: Freihaus HS4
TeX ... sooner or later you will have to know it ;)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 (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
- Overview, History and TeXLive
- Quickintro to LaTeX for Beginners
- How does it work in the background?
- Layouting with the
memoir
class, how to transform this into that - HTML-output with
htlatex
, producing slides withbeamer
class - Lottery
Open questions for DANTE TeXperts
- Why do fonts not look that nice in beamer slides than e.g. in keynote slides? (font rendering/hinting?)
- ...
Links
- http://cms.dante.de/dante2009 ... DANTE TeX days
- http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf ... The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e
- http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0525580/rsrc/Christoph_Pickl-Latex_Schnelleinstieg.pdf ... The maybe too short introduction to LaTeX
- http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf ... Memoir Class manual
- http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/html/de-tex-faq.html ... FAQ about TeX and DANTE
- http://www.haptonstahl.org/latex/index.php ... Crash Course in LaTeX