General Information about LaTeX and other Document Processing Tools

• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
• Online LaTeX Documentation | FAQ | Schneider's Resources
• Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX
• Text Processing using LaTeX from University of Cambridge
• TeX Users Group
• Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX
• The LaTeX Wikibook
• LaTeX reference card
• How to produce posters and other layouts
• Sweave
• Methods for converting from LaTeX to other formats
• JabRef - a comprehensive BibTeX database manager and reference import/export facility
• BibTeX style database
• PubMed bibliographic search engine with BibTeX output
• pybliographer : apt-get -t testing install pybliographer then type pybliographic at the command line. Select File -> Medline Query then File -> Save and save the result as a BibTeX file with a suffix of .bib. To view all the articles found, pull down on the bar separating the upper and lower panels.
• Adding a non-included style macro such as ctable or multibib to a Linux LaTeX installation:
  • Put getlatex in /usr/local/bin and set it to be executable
  • Run it, as root, using e.g. su -c "getlatex ctable"
  • This creates a new directory in the proper place in the tex installation, downloads all needed files from http://www.tug.org into this new directory, runs latex on the .ins file to create the .sty file, and runs mktexlsr to update tex indexes.
  • A simpler solution that may be more reliable
• graphviz for drawing diagrams and an article about it in Linux Journal
  To install under Debian Linux get the package from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/graphviz.html and install it using KPackage or save to disk then as root run dpkg -i graphviz*.deb where * is the version. Documentation may then be found in /usr/share/doc/graphviz. Under KDE you can do Alt-F2 #dot to launch the browser with the man page for dot. Click here for an example of the use of dot and for possible LaTeX alternatives.
• Best approach to convert LaTeX documents to html then to OpenOffice or Word: TeX4ht
• HeVeA: an excellent program for converting LaTeX code to HTML without using graphics. This may be installed with a standard Debian apt-get and is preinstalled on our Linux computers.
• latex2rtf: a LaTeX to RTF convertor
• TtM: a LaTeX to html,xml,mathml convertor with elegant rendering of complex equations. You can save output in html and import in Word.
• html to latex converter: apt-get install gnuhtml2latex
• OpenOffice to LaTeX convertor
• A Perl script s2latx.pl when used with LaTeX can process S source code to automatically convert to a form ready to \input{} into LaTeX for pretty printing if your system allows (through the latex --shell-escape system command) external program to be invoked by LaTeX. Store the LaTeX style macro sinput.sty where LaTeX can find it (this version of sinput.sty is for Linux/Unix). Here is an example LaTeX file to include and pretty-print S code. It assumes that s2latx.pl is in your system path. Invoke LaTeX using latex --shell-escape myfilename.

 
\usepackage{sinput} % User must define \scom to specify how S comments are typeset 
\newcommand{\scom}[1]{{\rm\scriptsize \# #1}} 
\begin{document} 
\sinput{mysprog.s} % myprog.s is an ordinary S script
\end{document} 

• Highlight, converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting
• AucTeX: This Emacs/Xemacs mode makes it easy to run programs associated with LaTeX from within Emacs. You can also run latex on a highlighted region of your document if you only want to compile part of the text.
• Using LaTeX for making presentations
  • Tutorial on the LaTeX seminar style (link broken)
  • FrankHarrell's LaTeX setup for slides and handouts (using seminar style) and handouts (using report style)
  • Sample slides using the Seminar class: The tex file, the postscript file, and the R file (to generate figures).
  • Prosper, a LaTeX-based tool for making Powerpoint-type presentations
  • Beamer - a competitor of Prosper | Example | Source Code | Template | Tips
• LaTeX examples and templates, including LaTeX macros for insertion of postscript graphics (the Hmisc setps and ps.slide functions work especially well for this), templates for NIH grant proposals, and a template making slides for talks. Don't forget to look at our report Statistical Tables and Plots using S-Plus and LaTeX. Note that the section on converting to HTML in this report has not been updated to describe Hevea. It does contain a lot of LaTeX code for your viewing pleasure.
• Inserting general LaTeX code inside graphics

• Go to the GNU Emacs home page or to the GNU Emacs Manual or to the GNU Emacs Tutorial
• Go to the AUCTeX home page
• Go to the RefTeX home page or directly to RefTeX documentation.
• Dalhousie University's Software Tutorials, including LaTeX, UNIX, and S-Plus
• Go to the Statistical Reporting, Linking S-Plus Output with Report Documents, Literate Programming, Managing Analyses, and Documenting Programs and Data home page

-- FrankHarrell - 08 Apr 2004, modified 13 May 2004, 20 Jun, 5 Sep, 12 Sep, 3 Oct, 11 Oct 2004, 1 Jan, 23 Feb, 11 May 2005, 6 Apr, 21 Oct 2006, 15 Mar, 19 Jul, 5 Aug, 21 Aug, 17 Sep 2007, 17 Jan, 28 May 2009