Econometrics Lab at UIUC

Getting LaTex to work

As we all know, LaTeX is pretty much the only choice you have if you need to do any kind of serious mathematical writing. LaTex 2e is avaiable in Ragnar, and in order to make it work from your account, you just need to add the following aliases in your ".cshrc" file:

• To compile your LaTex code using the "latex" command, you can add the following alias:

alias latex /opt/texmf/bin/latex

• To run an X-windows DVI previewer with the "view" command you can add the following alias:

alias view /opt/texmf/bin/xdvi

• To send your DVI file to the printer in postcript format (or save into a postcript file) using the "print" command, you can add the following alias:

alias print /opt/texmf/bin/dvips

Some useful LaTeX stuff

One of the more annoying tasks when having a to make a presentation that requires some mathematical notation is to translate all that nice LaTeX code into presentation format. Here is a link to Timothy van Zandt's Seminar package, a LaTeX package specifically designed for overhead-type presentations. The documentation for this package can be obtained from the previous link as a .dvi file, but i have made it avaiable in PDF format here.

You should check the LaTeX section at the Econometrics Links page for a number of very useful links.

please contact Daniel Morillo for questions related to this.

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