Meeting 11

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 (Zentraler Informatik Dienst) for this sponsoring.

Presentations

TeX, LaTeX und der ganze Rest

Overview, History and TeXLive crashcourse by Norbert Preining (lecturer at the Vienna University Of Technology).

LaTeX Quickintro

A short introduction for non-LaTeXperts by Christoph Pickl.

What's happening in the background?

Second part of Norbert's presentation: Overview of the process of generating a dvi/pdf with all other filetypes involved.

Layouting with the memoir class

How to transform a plain LaTeX document into a nice memoir enhanced document by Martin Schürrer.

Lookup the TeX sources at: http://github.com/MSch/memoir-article-demo

Producing HTML and Slides with LaTeX

Second part of Christoph's presentation: HTML-output with htlatex and producing slides with the beamer class.

Lottery

Two examples of a very nice LaTeX book.

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. ...

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