Tricks

Introduction

Almost every document coming out of the UBC Math Department or the IAM has been LaTeX'd. It is very nearly essential that Grad students know how to use this document processing package. Writing a thesis without LaTeX? You might as well re-invent the wheel. Before too long, anyone who uses LaTeX runs into problems---not problems because you forgot a } or a \, but you want to make something look a little different, and latex gets hung up. The usual remedy is get out Lamport's manual and sift through it, or figure things out by trial and error. And every Grad student does this for themselves. Rather than re-inventing the wheel with every report, project, or thesis, some of the better tricks are collected here. Someone else has spent an afternoon cursing and you don't have to. At least, not for a whole afternoon...

These pages are continually under construction as old tricks get debugged and new tricks are added.

I've tried not to make these pages too Netscape dependent. Mosaic should be just fine. But if you've got a choice, go for Netscape--things look a lot prettier.

Read me...

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Peter Newbury e-mail: newbury@math.ubc.ca
Last update: Added subequations 11 October 1996

1485 non-local hits in 1996
1038 non-local hits between 1997/01/01 and 1997/06/30