Lance Carnes Play (21min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

PracTeX stands for “practical TeX” and focuses on the techniques and experiences of LaTeX and TeX users in document production. In the TeX community there are many opportunities for expert users and developers to share information but there are relatively few for beginning, intermediate, and production users. By providing more practical materials and opportunities for this large group of users the TeX community can grow and TeX can become more widely used. In this brief talk I will describe what “practical” TeX is, examine a few of the current offerings, and suggest some ideas that might be implemented in the future.

Onofrio de Bari Play (23min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

The intent of this article is to collect information and useful resources for using the editor GNU Emacs with a AUCTEX in the drafting of documents LATEX, presenting instructions and recommendations that up to now have not been brought to the attention of users with documents in Italian. In a first analysis we introduce the GNU Emacs editor, then dwelling on its logical structure and what instructions can be given to Emacs in order to be convenient to use with TeX and LaTeX, are finally analyzed in detail the software modules AUCTEX and preview-latex useful in preparing the source code and display prior document.

Jean-Michel Hufflen Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

This paper shows the architecture of MlBibTeX, our reimplementation of BibTeX focusing on multilingual features. Making precise the organisation and modules of this architecture allows us to show how MlBibTeX works and focus on the differences between MlBibTeX and BibTeX from a conceptual point of view. We also explain why this implementation using the Scheme programming language allows users to scrutinise the result of intermediate steps.

Kaveh Bazargan, CV Radhakrishnan Play (25min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

One of TeX’s advantages over traditional typesetting systems is the mechanism to stretch horizonal and vertical glue as needed, in order to aid paragraph building and pagination. But all TeX operators involved in day-to-day page make-up know that this inbuilt intelligence is often ‘too clever’ and frustrating for the user. TeX will not do what you want it to do, and only over many years can operators gain the knowledge that allows them to make just the right change to the source code in order to coerce TeX to produce the desired result.

Recently we have been experimenting with removing vertical stretchability, with promising results. Our approach is to round off the height of all vertical material, including floats and displayed equations, to be an integral number of the leading of the main text. One advantage is that this allows true ‘grid’ setting in double column text.

Lapo Mori, Maurizio Himmelmann Play (31min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

The purpose of this article is to provide the tools to create and format tables using LATEX2e correctly. This is achieved by analyzing the typical problems encountered during the creation of tables and possible solutions; it pays particular attention to the packages to be used in different circumstances. For individual cases are reported and examples, please refer to the manuals of the packages suggested, if necessary.

Enrico Gregorio Play (27min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

TeX works with lists of tokens that form as they read letters from a document. Tex. Understanding the process of division in token is important if you want to change the usual behavior of TeX. In this respect the concept of category code assigned to a character is essential. Of particular interest are the active characters. Will give you an application that exploits some of the new features of e-TeX.

Roberta Tucci Play (26min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

This article consists of three parts: a first part in which they are exposed some philological problems that occur when there is going to make an issue of a critical mathematics, a second type of description, which presents the tools information (MAUROTEX and MetaPost) have been chosen for the edition, a third party in which they are exposed briefly the results obtained from the use of these instruments.

Massimiliano Dominici, Pier Daniele Napolitani Play (39min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

The Project Maurolico was born some years ago with the aim of publishing, in print and electronic versions of the critical edition of the works of Francesco Maurolico (1494-1575). As part of this project was a system, MAURO-TeX which, with a language of mark-up type LaTeX allows, through the use of special tools, to obtain an output html for publication on the Internet and a standard LaTeX output format as an intermediate to pdf and postscript. MAURO-TeX is undergoing profound transformation. On one side is moving towards the xml the part for encoding text, the other starting the printed publication of the works is an opportunity for a thorough review of the macro used by the intermediate format to generate LaTeX output pdf and postscript.

Jerònimo Leal Play (32min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

The article has some experience on a course of LaTeX for printing critical. Here are treated the two organizational steps of the course. First, the preparation: the choice of distribution, the editor choice, preparation of lectures, exercises and examples, advertising and subscription, and then the realization: send the material, installation, testing and analysis of the results.

Salvatore Palma Play (29min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

In the 2005/06 school year just ended, I started to realize the site of a school rehabilitation project and depth of subjects of Mathematics and Physics for my students. In my work I use mainly AcroTex Professor DP Story of the University of Akron and PdfScreen CV Radhakrishnan.

Gustavo Cevolani Play (31min) Download: FLV | MOV | mp3

The first part of the article presents the main methods available in LaTeX to print leaflets (leaflets), printed a few pages (brochures) and real books (books). The second part presents some examples of code and its result (examples), as well to consider some alternative methods (Appendices psutils and more).