Episode 22: LaTeX

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News

• Call of Duty Black Ops II
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• http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/89-dual-core-android-stick-pc-leaves-mk802-in-the-dust-20120814/
• Wooden Computer Kit
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• Calculator Portal
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/12/portals-physics-engine-rebuilt-in-25kb-on-a-graphing-calculator/
• http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2008-06/18-stillaliveds-portal_2d_for_nintendo_ds

Tool of the Show

• Jason:  Cocos2d-x & Cocos2d-html5 http://www.cocos2d-x.org/projects/cocos2d-x/wiki/Html5
• Patrick: SnapSeed http://www.snapseed.com/

Book of the Show

• Jason:  Sedgewick Algorithms in C++: Books 1-4: http://tinyurl.com/agbc8t7 Book 5: http://tinyurl.com/bhh5xvc
• Patrick: Head First Design Patterns: http://tinyurl.com/ayxb7q6

LaTeX

History

• TeX
• Created by Donald Knuth
• Based on 19th century typesetting machines
• LaTeX
• Created by Leslie Lamport
• TeX with many macros

Features

• bibtex: bibliography management
• Most citations have a .bib file for easy import
• Decouple the content (the source) from the style
• Turn your paper into a book, book into a webpage, etc.
• Automatic generation of references, table of contents, bibliography
• Export to many formats
• dvi (default)
• latex2html
• pdf (using pdflatex)
• ps
• Not WYSIWYG, WYSIWYM

Tools

• Lyx: A WYSIWYG editor that exports latex
• http://www.lyx.org/
• http://scholar.google.com/  (export articles to bibtex)

Uses

• Academic writing
• Conferences, journals
• Writing Textbooks
• Resumes, curricula vitae