The Committee are slowly organising older information on the web server, which is not currently visible. The first set of useful files to be sorted out are slides from the 2006 Living and Working with LaTeX workshop. The following slides are available: Jonathan Fine: Avoiding problems, Solving problems, Asking for help, and the handout version Peter Flynn: Sorry, Professor, the dog ate my thesis, and the handout version Nicola Talbot:…
Jonathan Webley joins UK-TUG Committee
The Committee is pleased to announce that Jonathan Webley has been co-opted. His interested in TeX stems from involvement with Project Gutenberg, and their efforts to make out-of-copyright texts available to all. He is currently working on Elements of the differential and integral calculus by William Anthony Granville, and says: With LaTeX, even an idiot like me can produce beautiful pages stuffed full of integrals and partial differentials, with the…
Short website interruption
Sorry for the loss of the website earlier today. The database server at our hosts (Prime Hosting) was misbehaving. Hopefully everything is working well again now!
Resources for thesis writing
Writing a thesis in LaTeX is an area that many people seek help with. The UK-TUG Committee is keen to help students, particularly those in the UK, find the resources they need. The training pages include a lot of useful links. In particular, the thesis page includes links to various thesis templates for UK universities. A couple of general sites deserve a highlight, as both include very good general advice…
LaTeX Training Course: Cambridge University
The University of Cambridge has a LaTeX course for beginners in February (10th and 11th) and a practical session (13th); the course is aimed at students and staff at the university. Thanks to LaTeX for Humans for this information.
Mail merge template
Writing multiple letters using mail merge is a common task. The templates page now includes a simple letter template for mail merge, including an example CSV database.
EuroTeX 2009 Meeting
EuroTeX 2009 takes place this year in Holland in late August/early September. The focus of the meeting is on Educational uses of TeX (such as manuals and teaching materials). The fee for UK-TUG members is €350, which includes everything except the excursion day (which costs €75). In particular it includes accommodation and meals. If you book and pay before February 1st there is a €100 discount (and possibly a better…
Thesis templates
The templates page now contains several links to Ph.D. thesis templates and advice. Many of these are generally useful, although every university has its own rules on laying out a thesis.
Inspected accounts
The inspected accounts for 2007–08, as presented at the AGM, are now available on-line as a PDF file.
Templates
We are starting a collection of UK-targetted templates, designed for the new LaTeX user and including comments to help the beginner. To start with, we have a simple letter template, which takes the basic letter class and gives it a more modern look: see the PDF. We will be working on more templates in the coming weeks. Suggestions for useful types of document would be very welcome, as of course…