LaTeX Help & Discussion
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Just a quick heads-up that might be helpful for some of you.
The official LaTeX templates for university papers (including Capstones, Theses, and Seminars) have been finalized this year at MIT. You can download them here:
http://code.google.com/p/fer-latex-templates/ (includes fer.cls and fer.bst)
If you're just getting started, I recommend downloading "brzistart.zip" because it includes .tex files with the styles already linked.
While these follow the specific formatting guidelines required by MIT, they are easy to customize for your own college—if your school doesn't have strict rules, you can simply update the names within the fer.cls file.
Accompanying these templates is a guide that remains useful even if you don't plan on using these specific templates.
The goal of the guide is to give readers a brief introduction to LaTeX. It covers why LaTeX is more than just a tool for math expressions, explains document structure, touches on typography, and lists several helpful commands.
You can grab the guide here: http://code.google.com/p/fer-latex-t...ozak-upute.pdf
Keep in mind that everything here was designed specifically to make writing student papers much easier.
If you're stuck on complex LaTeX code, these guides might not be enough. For those deeper issues, you should consult books such as:
www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf (TeX for the Impatient—best for more advanced troubleshooting)
and others.
The official LaTeX templates for university papers (including Capstones, Theses, and Seminars) have been finalized this year at MIT. You can download them here:
http://code.google.com/p/fer-latex-templates/ (includes fer.cls and fer.bst)
If you're just getting started, I recommend downloading "brzistart.zip" because it includes .tex files with the styles already linked.
While these follow the specific formatting guidelines required by MIT, they are easy to customize for your own college—if your school doesn't have strict rules, you can simply update the names within the fer.cls file.
Accompanying these templates is a guide that remains useful even if you don't plan on using these specific templates.
The goal of the guide is to give readers a brief introduction to LaTeX. It covers why LaTeX is more than just a tool for math expressions, explains document structure, touches on typography, and lists several helpful commands.
You can grab the guide here: http://code.google.com/p/fer-latex-t...ozak-upute.pdf
Keep in mind that everything here was designed specifically to make writing student papers much easier.
If you're stuck on complex LaTeX code, these guides might not be enough. For those deeper issues, you should consult books such as:
www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf (TeX for the Impatient—best for more advanced troubleshooting)
and others.