Here you can find some of the LaTeX
scripts and tips that I've made over the years.
Below are links that I've collected.
- Why TeX?
- If you'd like to install Type 1 expert font, see Amster-Burton's excellent
guide.
This guide tells you how to embed "old style figures" and small captials
from an expert font into regular fonts.
- Using Chinese TrueType fonts on a
dvips/ps2pdf/teTeX/CJK system.
- Excellent LaTeX résumé tips by Matthew M. Boedicker.
- "Why
using LaTeX", by Tim Love.
-
What has WYSIWYG done to us? by Conrad Taylor
-
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient by Allin Cottrell
- BiBTeX and LaTeX styles
for scientific journals related to molecular biology.
List of related books.
- TypeSENSE,
making sense of type on the computer, by Susan G. Wheller and Gary S. Wheller,
2nd edition, 2001, Prentice-Hall, Inc, New Jersey, USA.
- Tells you everything about typefaces.
- The elements of typographic style, by Robert Bringhurst,
version 2.5, 2002, Hartley & Marks, Publishers.
- Interestingly, both of the above books were set in Minion.
-
The manual of memoir document class.
- Memoir is a document class designed to replace the default
classes of LaTeX, such as article, book, report, ..., etc.
It enables easy and flexible settings of document layout.
In addition, the manual of memoir class
is not only a user's guide, it is also
an extensive reference of digital typography.
- The ultimate PostScript font installation guide by Philipp Lehman.
Last updated on May, 17, 2004.
I do most things using
LaTeX2e on Linux,
here is why.
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