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 Calling everyone who needs to create beautiful documents without wrestling
 with a word processor, especially for complicated or long documents, books
and
 brochures. Jumping margins? Mis-aligned tables? Hard-to-maintain indexes?
Wild
 page numbering?

 With a lively presentation interrupted for coffee at some point, Denise
will
 show what the LaTeX document preparation system is and what it can do.
LaTeX is
 the opposite of OpenOffice, AbiWord and others: you tag the plain text and
 compile it, and LaTeX does the formatting for you. LaTeX isn't hard, just
 different!

 Denise will cover:

   * What does LaTeX look like? How do you pronounce it?
   * How does LaTeX work?
   * What is LaTeX good for?
   * What sort of output can it produce?
   * How does Denise use it daily for study and work (fun and profit)?
   * How can you get started?

There will also be a short intro on 'Author-Friendly Text Processing
Systems' by Dan Shearer:

  A very brief introduction to systems for logically describing what a
  nicely-formatted document should look like. There are many languages for
these
  logical descriptions, some of them very popular. This sets the context
  for why the 20+ year-old LaTeX system built on the 30+ year-old TeX system
is
  not only alive but very important today. LaTeX is roughly in the middle of
a
  spectrum of logical markup languages that sees projects like AsciiDoc and
  friends on one side (very author-friendly) and XML on the other
(unintelligible
  to humans.)


--
Dan Shearer
dan at shearer.org

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<div dir="ltr">For anyone that isnt on the ScotLUG mailing list<br><br>Cheers <br>Callum<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Shearer</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:dan at shearer.org">dan at shearer.org</a>&gt;</span><br>
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM<br>Subject: [Scottish] Edlug 7:30pm 4th September: The LaTeX Document Preparation System<br>To: Edlug list &lt;<a href="mailto:edlug at lists.ed.ac.uk">edlug at lists.ed.ac.uk</a>&gt;, <a href="mailto:scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk">scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
<br><br>EdLUG is on again!<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;The LaTeX Document Preparation System<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;by Denise Wood<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;7:30pm Thursday 4th September 2008 at<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;The Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue<br>
 &nbsp;16 St Marys Street<br>
 &nbsp;Right in the middle of Edinburgh<br>
<br>
 &nbsp;See <a href="http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Edinburgh_Training_and_Conference_Venue" target="_blank">http://www.scotlug.org.uk/wiki/Edinburgh_Training_and_Conference_Venue</a> for<br>
 &nbsp;more details and a map. Tea/coffee/bikkies.<br>
<br>