Center for Applied Statistics, LaTeX Resources
Last updated:  September 29, 2008

Slides and presentations from our annual workshops

March 2008 LaTeX workshop

General (not platform specific) LaTeX resources

• The Not so short introduction to LaTeX
• Stephen Haptonstahl has a reasonably good "start from nothing" primer on LaTeX called Crash Course in LaTeX, and also advises consulting the following resources:
  • Inserting and Manipulating Figures (source file and presentation; should compile cleanly)
  • IrfanView: free Windows software to convert most things to JPG
  • jpeg2ps: Convert JPG to EPS (now you're ready to \includegraphics{myfile})
  • jPicEdt: Diagram drawing tool Steve showed you in class
  • Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX: Great reference for what you do within LaTeX to manipulate figures. Start with Part III, Chapter 10.
  • CTAN - Graphics: Lots more about graphics in LaTeX
  • Starter files: templates for your first document, an everyday document, a beamer-based presentation, and a syllabus
  • Game tree example using PSTricks; full documentation included. You can do anything with this, but it can be a little daunting.
  • Games, per Osborne: Osborne's LaTeX styles for normal form (sgame.sty) and extensive form (egame.sty) games. Source and documentation.
  • JabRef: Bibliography file software, Java-based so it works anywhere
  • Crash Course - Bibliographies: Getting started with bibliographies in LaTeX

• Mittelbach et al's The LaTeX Companion,  available online for members of the Washington University Community through Safari Books.  There are several other excellent LaTeX references in this series, including The LaTeX Graphics Companion and LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML

• Beamer
• TeXpower
• FoilTex

• TexMaker A LaTex Editor
• JabRef A Java based citation manager

• APSR

• TeXshop
• MacTeX users group
• Excalibur The LaTeX aware spell checker
• LaTeXit for equations
• BibDesk for managing bibliographies

• MikTex General distribution of Tex
• WinEdt  A LaTeX frontend  WinEdt has numerous nifty add-ons including Tablas for tables, Graphics for graphics, and the New Latex document interface.
• IrfanView A populat image converter