[OS X TeX] TeX is not for the faint of heart
Michael S. Hanson
mshanson at wesleyan.edu
Tue May 4 09:07:06 EDT 2004
On May 4, 2004, at 6:57 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
> Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> Who can get me a basic set that I can put on the Desktop (after
>> asking the
>> user of course and only during non-expert install)
I understood Gerben was looking for existing documents, rather than a
comprehensive example file, to place on the desktop. That said, I have
some additions to the proposed document below.
However, I would recommend instead opening a web page of documents and
other links upon completion of the installation, rather than placing
things on the Desktop. For example, a link to "A Not So Short
Introduction..." could be included -- that way the user can choose to
download the document(s) if he/she sees fit, to a directory of his/her
choice (although one might recommend a specific location in the
personal TeX tree), or bookmark that page for later reference, or just
browse.
Here is a partial list of links I have collected for myself and
recommended to new LaTeX users over the years. Feel free to
add/subtract as desired.
* Introduction to (La)TeX
http://www.tug.org/begin.html
* (La)TeX and Mac OS X
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/default.html
http://www.rna.nl/tex.html
http://latex.yauh.de/index_en.html
http://www.nat.vu.nl/~sneep/tex/Mac-TeX-FAQ.pdf
* Writing documents with LaTeX
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/lshort/lshort.pdf
http://sarovar.org/projects/ltxprimer
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/
(or
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/beginlatex.letter.pdf)
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-
letter.pdf
* Additional assistance and resources
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
http://latex.s-v-p.de/
http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/
http://www.ctan.org/
(Aside: I would strongly recommend PDF Browser Plugin
<http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/> as a very handy way to view
.pdf and .ps docs from within most common browsers. It's free for
personal, educational, and non-profit use.)
> I just whipped this up then, so I may have left some things out.
>
> Will
>
>
> %%% PREAMBLE
>
> MEMOIR CLASS
>
> GRAPHICX % for graphics support. Lets you use PDF,JPG & PNG
> BOOKTABS % to create nice looking tables
> HYPERREF % to create hyperlinks in the final pdf document
> AMSMATH % to typeset complex math
>
> Maybe
> FANCYREF % for advanced referencing within a document
I would recommend the following packages as well, especially if one
goal is to assist those moving from a word processing environment to
LaTeX:
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} % For setting page dimensions
\usepackage{setspace} % For double-spacing text
\usepackage{natbib} % For references and bibliographies
-- Mike
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