[olug] LaTeX rocks!

[Mike Hostetler]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:20:31PM -0600, gvanmill at unmc.edu wrote:
> I wish I could have seen Brian's presentation, but had some family 
> things...
> 
> It is certainly interesting!  We are using it at UNMC for one of our 
> projects.  But I'm still on the learning path.  I have been using Miktex 
> on windows,but things aren't lining up under LINUX.

most distros have a LaTeX package -- generally tetex.  Try installing
that.

> I'm trying to use fancyhdr to make headers and footers, so I'm wondering 
> if there is a way to turn off the old footer to get rid of the page 
> numbers and apply the \cfoot command to add more stuff to the footer?

\pagestyle{empty} in the preamble will turn off the default page number.
No idea if it will effect fancyhdr (since I have never used it).  I
probably won't, though.
 
> --Glen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Jeremy Bettis" <jeremyb at hksys.com>
> Sent by: olug-admin at olug.org
> 01/23/2003 10:26 AM
> Please respond to olug
>  
>         To:     <olug at olug.org>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        RE: [olug] LaTeX rocks!
> 
> 
> I only use the Web2C distribution.  It is much better than miktex,
> mostly because it does not require registry settings.  It can be
> installed just by dumping the files on your hard disk, and editing the
> PATH.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Bettis, Software Development Manager
> HKS Medical Information Systems, Inc.
> jeremyb at hksys.com
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Payne [mailto:Payne at MattPayne.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:11 AM
> > To: olug at olug.org
> > Subject: [olug] LaTeX rocks!
> > 
> > 
> > > Message: 5
> > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:40:12 -0600
> > > From: Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com>
> > > To: olug <olug at olug.org>
> > > Subject: [olug] LaTeX presentation - tonight
> > > Reply-To: olug at olug.org
> > >
> > > Sorry for the short notice, but if the roads are all good tonight -
> then
> > I
> > > would encourage you to check out a presentation on LaTeX tonight at
> > > 6:30pm.  This presentation is sponsored by the UNO ACM group and
> will be
> > > held in the Peter Kiewit Institute, on 67th and Pacific, in room
> 279.
> > The
> > > general public is welcome and invited to attend.
> > >
> > >              What: LaTeX Presentation by John Clark
> > >              When: 6:30pm - Wed Jan 22nd
> > >              Where: PKI, 67th and Pacific, Room 279
> > 
> > I bet this was a really good talk.   Learning LaTeX from examples
> helps me
> > a
> > lot.  Some of my LaTeX documents are at http://MattPayne.org/hws --
> > There's
> > tricks for putting URLs into PDFs so when you click on them it fires
> up a
> > web
> > browser.  There's the preamble that makes tree view bookmarks work...
> The
> > comments point to the books I took them from.
> > 
> > Jeremy Bettis - What's the LaTeX distribution you like for Windows?  I
> > can't
> > find it in the OLUG mailing list archives.  It was better than
> MikTeX....
> > 
> > Thanks! -Matt
> > 
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