Tech Help

Athena

• Athena FAQ
• Printing FAQ
• E-mail FAQ
• Po-Ling's notes for beginners
• Slides on Intro Athena as a PDF or a .tex file
• Worksheet on Intro Athena as a PDF or a .tex file
• Reference Guide to Intro Athena as a PDF or a .tex file

Emacs

• Emacs FAQ
• Po-Ling's notes for beginners

OpenOffice

LaTeX

• LaTeX FAQ
• Images FAQ
  This year, you will only be able to include graphics in jpg, tiff, pdf, eps, and png format, but NOT gif. To convert files from one format to the other, type "convert picture.gif picture.png" (for example, to convert a file from gif to png format).
• Bibliography format
• Advanced Math Mode

Slides

• Slides on Intro LaTeX as a PDF or a .tex file
• Slides on Math Mode as a PDF or a .tex file
• Slides on Figures and Tables as a PDF or a .tex file
• Slides on Beamer as a PDF or as a .tex file

Reference Guides

• Po-Ling's notes for beginners
• Reference Guide to Intro LaTeX as a PDF or a .tex file
• Reference Guide to Math Mode and Figures & Tables as a PDF or a .tex file
• Reference Guide to Beamer as a PDF or a .tex file

Samples Exercises

• An "assignment" done in LaTeX and then compiled as a PDF
• Construction of a table as a PDF or a .tex file

Graphs

• Scatterplots in OpenOffice
• General plotting in Matlab
• Dr. Rickert's Plotting in Mathematica

• Figures in xfig
• Figures in Adobe Illustrator. You can find Illustrator in the New Media Center, room 26-139.

Zephyr

• FAQ
• BarnOwl getting started
• Useful Commands

Computing Programs

• Matlab: a high-level programming language featuring matrix manipulation.