Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about programming within the scope defined in the help center.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
Does anyone have or know where to find o bibliography style file like IEEEtr or IEEEtran for BibLaTeX? I've been searching all over, but could only find the ones for BibTeX. BibTeX can't really do the things I want, but my thesis has to conform with the IEEE standards...
I'd be really thankful if anyone could give me a hint how to use IEEE styles with BibLaTeX
Thanks a lot, Simon
Good news,
biblatex-ieee was released (Feb/12) by Joseph Wright. See at http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann#dante.de/msg03710.html
Greetings!
JF
\usepackage[style=ieee]{biblatex}
see Ieee style files for biblatex.
Well, I'm interested in the same thing - and I guess the answer is, biblatex can NOT use the style files that bibtex, like ieeetr.bst. The reason I think that is:
Re: Biblatex: "patent" record type
I'm currently working on porting a BibTeX style for my subject area
(chemistry) to biblatex.
CTAN: directory: /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex-contrib
biblatex-apa/
biblatex-chem/
biblatex-chicago/
... that is - apparently you have to build your own biblatex style, if you want to to be the same as a bibtex style.
Related
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
This question does not appear to be about programming within the scope defined in the help center.
Closed 9 years ago.
Improve this question
How can I use Isabelle/HOL to automatically generate LaTeX from my source theory files?
Isabelle/HOL's tutorial.pdf is very beautiful. I'm going to write a paper in LaTeX with a lot of Isabelle code in it.
You should first have a look at the existing documentation and come back with more specific questions afterwards (if there remain any; but I'm sure there will ;)).
What you want to do is called document preparation in Isabelle. The first place to look is Chapter 4 Presenting Theories of
the Isabelle System Manual. (Actually it is also a good idea to first read the previous chapter on Isabelle sessions and build management.)
For some neat notation also LaTeX Sugar for Isabelle Documents might be of interest.
Some other useful things, like generating TeX snippets from your Isabelle theories and including them in your document (which you might collaboratively work on with others that do not have Isabelle installed), can be found on the Community Wiki.
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow.
Closed 11 years ago.
Improve this question
I have been producing documents (both mathematical and non-mathematical) with Latex for about two years, and I feel rather confortable with it. Now I would like to learn Tex, but I wonder if there are any real reasons to do it rather than just for the fun of it... Is there really anyone using Tex when that person could well be using Latex?
"Learn TeX only if you would like to become a typesetter",
this is a memorable sentence our school project leader answered this question to my colleague years ago... :-)
LaTeX will do the job 99% people need. There is a perfect book about TeX - TexBook naruby, unfortunatelly in Czech only (I doubt it was translated). But just look at it just to get shocked and assure that you really don't want to learn TeX :-)
Advantage of plain tex over latex
reference: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/texhax/2009-October/013645.html
LaTeX moreover, gives very limited access to the features of the TeX
engine. This is just due to the effiency idea of LaTeX. When most urgent
things have been done and you can afford spending some time learning about
what is behind LaTeX and what TeX really offers.
This may help you in understanding difficulties with LaTeX,
why you need some extra packages for certain fine tuning, you may then mix
Plain TeX code into your LaTeX code for fine tuning, you can write your own
LaTeX packages getting more control of TeX ...
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.
Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post.
Closed 7 years ago.
Improve this question
How can I learn how to create LaTeX styles?
The normal way when creating a LaTeX document is to start with something like.
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
And that seems to call a .cls (and a .sty) file like letter.cls,
that is controlling the actual layout of the document.
Is there a good way to learn how to create this type of "latex style files"?
Has someone created a howto, step-by-step or simply a good manual on the topic?
Thanks
Johan
update:
I guess that tex.stackexchange.com is the answer on how to continue learning LaTeX.
With questions like this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/528/style-class-tutorials
There are two good papers in the PracTeX journal:
Minutes in Less Than Hours: Using LaTeX Resources by Jim Hefferon,
Rolling your own Document Class by Peter Flynn.
A very useful resource is LATEX2e for class and package writers.
This question is also discussed here: Style/class tutorials. You are kindly invited to use the links there and perhaps join the discussion there if you like.
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but may give you a better return on the time invested, depending on how you see your future use of LaTeX.
Memoir for documents, Beamer for presentations.
"All the LaTeX styles you'll ever
need!"
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
We don’t allow questions seeking recommendations for books, tools, software libraries, and more. You can edit the question so it can be answered with facts and citations.
Closed 6 years ago.
Improve this question
I have tried texmaker, and it has built-in "intellisense" autocompletion, but it fails to find most of the packages because it seems it only recognizes the most basic latex commands.
Do you know any intellisense editor with a good base of commands, or better yet an editor that dynamically extracts syntax from yourinstalled packages?
thanx!
Have a look at KILE or TEXMAKER.
The new Inlage Version just got an awesome autocompletion feature.
Features:
Automatic resolving for all available LaTeX packages from the MikTeX list
Autocompletion with descriptions for ~600 LaTeX commands
Autocompletion with descriptions for 30 environments
Autocompletion with descriptions for commented user commands
Reference list for labels
nice Icons for all symbols
More information here:
http://www.inlage.com/news/?p=159
Perhaps try TeXworks, as you can easily add more terms to the autocomplete list.
Ok guys i think i got the answer.
TexnicCenter has a "import tex commands" which searches for syntax from installed packages and then adds them to auto completion. Sweet. I prefer more minimalistic editors such as texmaker, but i think i can live with texnic.
Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers.
Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.
Closed 9 years ago.
Improve this question
I've been using LaTeX for about 3-4 years now. In that time I've picked up what I've needed as I've needed it, most often by Googling. However, I'd like to learn some more advanced features of LaTeX such as editing or even creating my own class files and bibtex styles. I've worked with some fairly powerful class files before, but I have a tough time understanding the syntax as it's rather obscure.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial (or book) that I can use to learn such advanced features of LaTeX?
For the really advanced stuff, nothing can beat the dtx files describing the LaTeX classes themselves. Your TeX distribution might not have shipped them, so get them from CTAN; the dtx files are usually stripped of comments before being installed, but you can compile them with LaTeX to get the comments and code nicely typeset.
TUGboat has some advanced articles as well.
Have a look at the LaTeX Companion.
Have a look at the answers in these questions:
Best practices in LaTeX
What is the fastest way to learn LaTeX basics? (especially the second answer has some nice references)
I have been using a few books over the years,
Guide to LaTeX by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly
The LaTeX Companion (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting) by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams and David Carlisle
And the clssic
LaTeX: A Document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport
Also,
the soft book available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ is a moderately good one.
Moreover, as advised above, make it a practice to read the dtx files when you start using a new style file.
Some of these advanced topics are covered in the Wikibook. There is also the (Not So) Short introduction to LaTeX2e.