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PracTeX 2006 – Zeeba TV
Zeeba TV | River Valley Technologies, London, India
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Removing vertical stretch—mimicking traditional typesetting with TeX
Kaveh Bazargan River Valley Technologies Play (36min) Download: M4V | MP3 One of TeX’s advantages over traditional typesetting systems is the mechanism to stretch horizonal and vertical glue as needed, in order to aid paragraph building and pagination. But all TeX operators involved in day-to-day...
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Rolling your own document class
Peter Flynn Silmaril Consultants Play (44min) Download: M4V | MP3 LaTeX users who want to package their macro application as a document class file are often put off by the complexity of the sample classes in the standard distribution. This paper describes what the code in the article files does…
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LaTeX at a liberal arts college
Jon Breitenbucher College of Wooster Play (32min) Download: M4V | MP3 Does LaTeX have a place in a liberal arts education? Yes, and in this talk I present my reasons for introducing LaTeX in an undergraduate liberal arts setting. I also present how I introduced LaTeX, issues that were…
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Graphics with PGF and TikZ
Andrew Mertz, William Slough Eastern Illinois University Play (36min) Download: M4V | MP3 Beautiful and expressive documents often require beautiful and expressive graphics. PGF, (portable graphics format) and its front-end TikZ walks a thin line between power, portability and usability, to give…
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Using MetaPost for creating high-quality technical graphics
Troy Henderson US Military Academy Play (37min) Download: M4V | MP3 MetaPost is a powerful graphics language (by John Hobby) based on Donald Knuth’s METAFONT with high quality PostScript output. An outstanding feature of MetaPost is that typeset fonts in the output graphics are consistent with...
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A lifetime as an amateur compositor
David Walden E. Sandwich, MA Play (41min) Download: M4V | MP3 The first section of this paper briefly relates my experience writing and printing documents until I began to us TeX. The second section summarizes why I now use TeX and gives examples of its benefits, particularly writing books.…
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Automatic Report Generation with Web, TeX, and SQL
Boris Veytsman*, Maria Shmilevich** * AES ITT Industries, ** George Mason University Play (min) Download: M4V | MP3 One of the most time-consuming task of a manager for a federal contractor is the creation of reports: weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly as well as special reports at the end of...
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Capabilities of PDF interactivity
Federico Garcia University of Pittsburgh Play (54min) Download: M4V | MP3 With the proliferation of electronic publishing, the need of LaTeX users to master techniques of PDF interactivity is growing. This presentation discusses some of the immediate additions to ‘regular’ typesetting in the...
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XeTeX: past, present, future
Jonathan Kew SIL International Play (46min) Download: M4V | MP3 What is XeTeX? An extended TEX typesetting engine Using modern font technologies TrueType, OpenType no TeX-specific font installation or configuration needed With “smart rendering” support Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) OpenType...
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Common macro pitfalls and how to avoid them
Ned Hummel University of Nebraska Play (28min) Download: M4V | MP3 In the process of learning LaTeX there are a number of common pitfalls that many of us fall into at some point. For most of us we encounter these pitfalls when writing macros for the first time. One of the great advantages of…
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