Typesetting your papers: basic LaTeX instructions.
To get started with Latex, create a file, let's call it myfile.tex,
that countains the following:
\documentclass[11pt]{article} % 11 points is a good size
\usepackage{fullpage} % more lines and longer lines per page
\begin{document}
\title{Whatever}
\author{your name}
\maketitle % generates the title
..... whatever you want to write. To divide into sections use something like
\section{Introduction}
\section{Background}
....
\section{Conclusions}
\end{document}
To generate the output run latex myfile
To preview the output use xdvi myfile
Repeat this until you are satisfied.
To generate the postscript file do
dvips -tletter myfile -o myfile.ps
Convert to pdf by doing ps2pdf myfile.ps
You can easily generate bibliographic citations, by creating a
bibliography file (.bib), specifying in your document what style you want,
for instance
\bibliographystyle{plain}
and the name of your bibliography file
\bibliography{mybibliofile}
and running
bibtex myfile
After running bibtex, you need to run latex
again twice (latex goes through your file once, so forward references cannot
be filled in a single pass).
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of Minnesota
Department of Computer Science and
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Comments to: Maria Gini
Changes and corrections are in red.