I am behide the times, what is new LaTeX2e?

LaTeX2e Information

OnLine Documentation About:

  • LaTeX2e Local Guide
  • Additional LaTeX2e Documents

(in PostScript):

  • UBC Statistics Dissertation Document Class
  • LaTeX2e WWW links

UBC Thesis Style Format

  • Located under /opt/texmf/bin/Thesis
  • Just copy the 4 files in that directory

(and fill in the blanks!!)

  • Carefully read the thesis.tex file

LaTeX2e Local Guide

  • local.ps (a local guide to use of LaTeX2e on the departmental research network)

?Additional LaTeX documentation in .ps format

  • Introduction to LaTeX2e
    • essential.ps: a short introduction to the most important commands
    • usrguide.ps: overview on the new commands relative to LaTeX 2.09
  • Graphics
    • grfguide.ps: macros for including postscript images, color and much more. This file is created by running LaTeX on grfguide.tex and dvips grfguide.
  • Tools
    • afterpage.ps: causes the commands specified in its argument to be expanded after the current page is output.
    • array.ps: A new implementation of LaTex's tabular and array environment.
    • dcolumn.ps: This package defines a system for defining column of entries in an array or tablular which are to be aligned on a ``decimal point''.
    • delarry.ps: implicits \left \right pairs.
    • enumerate.ps: gives the enumerate environment an optional argrument which determines the style in which the counter is printed.
    • fileerr.ps: deal with ``File not found error''.
    • ftnright.ps: Footnotes in a multi-column layout.
    • hhline.ps: produces a line like \hline, or a double line like\hline\hline except for its interaction with vertical lines.
    • indentfirst.ps: makes the first line of all sections ec, be indented by the usual paragraph indentation.
    • layout.ps: displays page layout variables.
    • longtable.ps: defines the longtable environment, a multi-page version of tabular.
    • multicol.ps: improved typesetting in several columns
    • rawfonts.ps: provides emulation of LaTex 2.09 documents which used low-level commands such as \tenrm.
    • showkeys.ps: displays the internal labels with \ref, \cite etc.
    • somedefs.ps: allows package writers to provide options which switch definitions on and off.
    • tabularx.ps: a new environment which takes the same argument as tabular, but modifies the width of certain columns, rather than the inter column space, to set a table with the requested total width.
    • theorem.ps: an extension of the LaTex theorem environment.
    • varioref.ps: similar to \ref but adds an additional page references, like `` on the facing page'' or ``on page 27'' whenever the corresponding \lable is not on the same page.
    • verbatim.ps: reimplements the LaTeX verbatim and verbatim* environments.
    • xr.ps: implements a system for external references.
    • xspace.ps: saves the user from having to type \ or {} after most occurrences of a macro name in text.
  • Advanced topics
    • clsguide.ps: LaTeX2e for class and package writers
    • fntguide.ps: the New Font Selection Scheme for class and package writers
    • cfgguide.ps: configuration options for LaTeX2e

UBC Statistics Dissertation Document Classes

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