Important Note: Most of what Professor Story will do on his visit will depend on the groundwork laid by the preliminary mini-lectures given by David Arnold. All lectures will be held in the Physical Sciences building, room PS110.
I have placed a copy of lshort.pdf (849KB) on our server for your reading pleasure. A zipped copy, lshort.zip (519KB), is also available. This is an example of how LaTeX can create a fully linked PDF document. Take some time to browse this document to get an idea of the power that is inches away from your fingertips. This document was prepared with LaTeX and hyperref, a LaTeX package created by Sebastian Rahtz. Dr. Story will show you how to use the hyperref package during his visit.
I have placed a copy of epslatex.pdf (1.6MB) here for your perusal. It is absolutely the best thing that I have found on including graphics in a Latex document. Absolutely marvelous!
Rex Sinclair asked about using Latex to write examinations. In particular, he wanted to use more of the page and he also wanted some fancy headers and footers. If you'd like to see my solution, follow these directions:
Users who have upgraded to MikTeX 1.20 will probably want to upgrade to the Acrobat Reader 4.0, as they have no need for the Acrobat Reader 3.0 fonts (which are the same in Acrobat Reader 3.02) that are needed in the MikTeX 1.11 release (the latest release of MikTeX includes the URW fonts in place of Adobe's fonts---correct me if I am wrong). The correct Forms plugin also accompanies Acrobat Reader 4.0. After installing Acrobat Reader 3.02, if that is your choice, select Help>About Plugins>Acrobat Forms and make sure you have Forms 3.5 or higher installed. Otherwise, the online quiz will not work properly when viewed in your Reader.
With these thoughts in mind, download and enjoy intalg.pdf
Open in the Reader (either 4.0 or 3.02 with Forms 3.5 plugin installed), click on Begin Quiz, then click what you think to be the correct answer to each question. When finished, click End Exam and you will be provided with your score.
Yesterday's tip of the day is provided by Rex Sinclair. He quotes: "Warren Staley gave me the following Metapost file, for drawing blank grids for graphing problems. Save the file as grid.mp."
\beginfig(1); u=6 pt; pickup pencircle scaled .3 pt for i=0 upto 70: draw (i*u,0)--(i*u,70u) withcolor .6white; draw (0,i*u)--(70u,i*u) withcolor .6white; endfor; pickup pencircle scaled .7 pt; for i=0 upto 7: draw (10u*i,0)--(10u*i,70u) withcolor .1white; draw (0,10u*i)--(70u,10u*i) withcolor .1white; endfor; endfig; endRex goes on to say: "It gives a rather nice output of 10 tics per inch in dotted lines in a 70 by 70 grid with each 10 lines accented. The over all size can be changed by the commands I have added, including centering and sizing. This is done in the LateX file that calls this grid:"
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=2in]{grid.1}
\end{center}
\end{document}
Rex also shares: "PS. Dave's Tip 17 gives the Metapost sequence and "Using
Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e" by Reckdahl (page 20) is useful to embellish
on this."
Previous tips are also available!
| Lecture #1 | March 5, 2-3pm | Installing a TeX\LaTeX system on your home or office machine. Click here for lecture notes (PDF format). Updated 3/4/99. On Friday you may want to print these notes in your office, then bring them with you to the first lecture. |
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Structuring Your Document. Lecture notes are now available (3/6/99). Click lecture2.pdf for lecture notes (PDF format). On Fiday (3/12/99) you may want to print these notes in your office, then bring them with you to the second lecture. You can also click lecture2.tex for a copy of the source code for the lecture notes. |
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Typesetting Mathematics. Lecture notes are now available (3/14/99). Click lecture3.pdf for lecture notes (PDF format). On Fiday (3/19/99) you may want to print these notes in your office, then bring them with you to the third lecture. You can also click lecture3.tex for a copy of the source code for the lecture notes. |
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AMSLaTeX. Lecture notes are now available (3/21/99). Click lecture4.pdf for lecture notes (PDF format). On Friday (3/26/99) you may want to print these notes in your office, then bring them with you to the fourth lecture. You can also click lecture4.tex for a copy of the source code for the lecture notes. |
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Because of the importance of referencing in Donald Story's upcoming lectures, I have decided to move up by one week our lecture on referencing in LaTeX documents. Hopefully, this will give people a little more time to practice this all important skill in preparation for our upcoming workshop. Lecture notes are now available. Click lecture5.pdf for lecture notes (PDF format). Source code is also available. Download lecture5.tex and clown.eps. |
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Graphic Images in LaTeX. Our last lecture is on importing graphics into a LaTeX document. Click lecture6.pdf for lecture notes (PDF format). Source code is also available. Download lecture6.tex and clown.eps. |
Dr. Story had made some modifications and corrections to his packages web.sty and exerquiz.sty and added some online documentation in webeqman.pdf. A printable form of the manual is available in p_webeqman.pdf. Source files of the exercises and activities perfomed at the workshop are available in the lecture notes that follow.
If you want to simply download everything at once, then download the file story.zip. This file contains the packages, the documentation, and all of the exercise and activity source code.
| 2-3pm | Desert, coffee, meet the speaker |
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AcroTeX, Exploring the Possibilities, Setting up Acrobat: Distiller, Distiller Assistant, Exchange, Type 1 fonts, font subsetting and optimization. Participants worked on "assignments" provided in the file ws11.tex. |
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Designing your document, hyperlinking with Hyperref. The macro package webplain.styis introduced in the file ws21.tex. Dr. Story introduced color to our documents through the assignments in the file ws22.tex. The hyperref package is introduced in ws23.tex. Some options to hyperref are discussed: bookmarks, pagecropping, coloring links, and back referencing in the bibliography. The automatic changing of \ref, \pageref, and \cite into hyperlinks is discussed, as well as the disabling of these automatic link creating facilities. Finally, the \hyperlink, ... \hypertarget combination is discussed. |
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Coffee, donuts, free play (work on stuff from previous lectures, etc.) |
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Jazzing up your hyperlinks; Hyperref Options. In this third lecture, Dr. Story used the file ws31.tex to demonstrate the hyperref command, a command used to format hyperlinks. The hyperref package contains a number of other referencing tools that automatically format links. The \href command is a powerful tool that enables linking to files, URLs, and email. Some further hyperref options are also discussed, including those used for identifying the title, author, keywords, etc., as well as exhibiting some control over Acrobat's toolbar and menubar. The files ws32.tex needs to be changed to a pdf file, ws32.pdf. This is used in the exercises in ws31.tex for a remote document jump. |
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Creating on-line exercises with solutions. In ws41.tex, Dr. Story introduces his Navibar, which is particularly useful for navigating through PDF dcouments that are being veiwed full screen. Creating authoring document info is easily done from Latex. Setting a configuration file makes for easier use of Dr. Story's web package. Dr. Story also creates some navigation buttons in this exercise. Of course, the highlight of this exercise is the introduction of Dr. Story's exerquiz package, which allows instructors to create online question--solution pairs is a neatly formatted PDF file, optimized for reading on the World Wide Web. |
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Lunch |
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Free play (work on stuff from previous lectures, etc.) |
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Creating on-line quizzes with/without solutions. In ws51.tex, Dr. Story addressed some improvements in the hyperref package in handling non standard symbols in section headings. Then we began our work on multiple choice quizzes, with or without solutions. |
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Creating on-line graded quizzes with JavaScript. In ws61.tex, Dr. Story showed how to use the \hypersetup command to change options to the hyperref package, including accessing Acrobat menus from within the PDF file. We then delved further into his exerquiz package and constructed graded quizzes with solutions. Further work was done in formatting our output with a variety of options. |
\usepackage[dvipsone,nodirectory]{web}
which is appropriate for YandY users, to
\usepackage[dvips,nodirectory]{web}
Here are the Source Files.