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CRNKEE002: /* Templates */

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Templates

CRNKEE002 at 11:24, 12 February 2020

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 == Lyx ==
-[https://www.lyx.org/ LyX] is a word processing tool aimed at providing a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) approach to developing latex documents. If you like the approach of editing a document pretty much in the way it will look in the final version, as is usually done for Word document and Open Office documents, then this may be a tool suited to your preference. Certainly it has become a mature tool, been around for many years and a large user community has developed. From experience of using this tool, a bottle neck to its use is needed a suitably prepared starting-point document, it is not necessarily so easy as just opening a general Latex template and start using it immediately. It may take a bit of configuration and adjusting compiler settings, putting things in the right path etc. for the tool to work as needed. But once it is going and working nicely with the document layout and formatting you are using, it can certainly be a very quick way for developing high quality (Latex output quality) documents. Certainly something you may want to explore further. Good training materials and books (e.g. [https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/lyx-book/ "LyX, The Other Way of Writing"]) are available for this tool.
+[https://www.lyx.org/ LyX] is a word processing tool aimed at providing a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) approach to developing latex documents. If you like the approach of editing a document pretty much in the way it will look in the final version, as is usually done for Word document and Open Office documents, then this may be a tool suited to your preference. Certainly it has become a mature tool, been around for many years and a large user community has developed. From experience of using this tool, a bottleneck to its use is the need for a suitably prepared starting-point document, it is not necessarily so easy as just opening a general Latex template and start using it immediately. It may take a bit of configuration and adjusting compiler settings, putting things in the right path etc. for the tool to work as needed. But once it is going and working nicely with the document layout and formatting you are using, it can certainly be a very quick way for developing high quality (Latex output quality) documents. Certainly something you may want to explore further. Good training materials and books (e.g. [https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/lyx-book/ "LyX, The Other Way of Writing"]) are available for this tool.
 = Templates =

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 == Lyx ==
-[https://www.lyx.org/ LyX] is a word processing aimed at providing a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) approach to developing latex documents. If you like the approach of editing a document pretty much in the way it will look in the final version, as is usually done for Word document and Open Office documents, then this may be a tool suited to your preference. Certainly it has become a mature tool, been around for many years and a large user community has developed. From experience of using this tool, a bottle neck to its use is needed a suitably prepared starting-point document, it is not necessarily so easy as just opening a general Latex template and start using it immediately. It may take a bit of configuration and adjusting compiler settings, putting things in the right path etc. for the tool to work as needed. But once it is going and working nicely with the document layout and formatting you are using, it can certainly be a very quick way for developing high quality (Latex output quality) documents. Certainly something you may want to explore further. Good training materials and books (e.g. [https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/lyx-book/ "LyX, The Other Way of Writing"]) are available for this tool.
+[https://www.lyx.org/ LyX] is a word processing tool aimed at providing a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) approach to developing latex documents. If you like the approach of editing a document pretty much in the way it will look in the final version, as is usually done for Word document and Open Office documents, then this may be a tool suited to your preference. Certainly it has become a mature tool, been around for many years and a large user community has developed. From experience of using this tool, a bottle neck to its use is needed a suitably prepared starting-point document, it is not necessarily so easy as just opening a general Latex template and start using it immediately. It may take a bit of configuration and adjusting compiler settings, putting things in the right path etc. for the tool to work as needed. But once it is going and working nicely with the document layout and formatting you are using, it can certainly be a very quick way for developing high quality (Latex output quality) documents. Certainly something you may want to explore further. Good training materials and books (e.g. [https://frommindtotype.wordpress.com/lyx-book/ "LyX, The Other Way of Writing"]) are available for this tool.
 = Templates =

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 * [http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/ Writer2Latex] This is a collection of tools for converting from Open Document format to Latex (and other formats like HTML5). Obviously, if using this to convert from DOCX you would first need to export to ODF using Word or OpenOffice.
 * [https://www.docx2latex.com/ Docx2Latex] This online app provides good quality results, although it seems focused on going from a docx to a Latex-generated pdf. You are asked to sign up with an email. You may want to first try one of the options that doesn't require you to sign up.
 = Templates =

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 I get asked this often: I've for together a Word document but now want to convert it to Latex. Or I've got a tex document and the publisher want a docx together with the submitted paper. While it tends to end up being the best quality if you work in tex directly, there are a number of good tool solutions to do these conversions. Here are some suggestions:
-* [http://www.abisource.org/ AbiWord] This tool has an impressive range of file formats supported. You need to install / compile it from source on Linux (it is not supported for Windows or other operating systems). Installation info at [https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.abisource.AbiWord]
+* [http://www.abisource.org/ AbiWord] This tool has an impressive range of file formats supported. You need to install / compile it from source on Linux (it is not supported for Windows or other operating systems). Installation info at [https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.abisource.AbiWord Abisource.AbiWord].
 * [https://www.docx2latex.com/ Docx2Latex] This online app provides good quality results, although it seems focused on going from a docx to a Latex-generated pdf. You are asked to sign up with an email. You may want to first try one of the options that doesn't require you to sign up.

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	[http://www.citationmachine.net/bibtex/cite-a-website Citation machine] can be used to easily generate BibTex.		[http://www.citationmachine.net/bibtex/cite-a-website Citation machine] can be used to easily generate BibTex.
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		+	== Convert Word to Tex and Tex to Word ==
		+
		+	I get asked this often: I've for together a Word document but now want to convert it to Latex. Or I've got a tex document and the publisher want a docx together with the submitted paper. While it tends to end up being the best quality if you work in tex directly, there are a number of good tool solutions to do these conversions. Here are some suggestions:
		+
		+	* [http://www.abisource.org/ AbiWord] This tool has an impressive range of file formats supported. You need to install / compile it from source on Linux (it is not supported for Windows or other operating systems). Installation info at [https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.abisource.AbiWord]
		+	* [https://www.docx2latex.com/ Docx2Latex] This online app provides good quality results, although it seems focused on going from a docx to a Latex-generated pdf. You are asked to sign up with an email. You may want to first try one of the options that doesn't require you to sign up.

	= Templates =		= Templates =

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 * Note: you will need to change the “Main document” in the Menu when editing your document to be “Report.tex”
 * Note: You will not be able to compile the source into a pdf if you are viewing ''Preamble.tex''
 == Detexify ==

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 ; Templates
-;The IEEE Conference Template : [[File:IEEE Conference Template.zip|thumb]]
+; The IEEE Conference Template : [[File:IEEE Conference Template.zip|thumb]]
 ; An example large template report, useful for final year projects and as a starting point for other write ups
 : [[File:Large Template.zip|thumb]]
 :There are two cover pages here, one for a general report, another for a formal dissertation hand in.
 ; The originals are available at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

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	Templates are a good way to get started with a LaTeX project. You should not be creating templates from scratch. Overleaf has a selection of templates, but these are ones found useful in the department. You may still need to add and adjust preamble contents for packages, changes in style, etc.		Templates are a good way to get started with a LaTeX project. You should not be creating templates from scratch. Overleaf has a selection of templates, but these are ones found useful in the department. You may still need to add and adjust preamble contents for packages, changes in style, etc.

−	[[File:IEEE Conference Template.zip\|thumb]]	+	; Templates
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		+	;The IEEE Conference Template : [[File:IEEE Conference Template.zip\|thumb]]
		+	; An example large template report, useful for final year projects and as a starting point for other write ups
		+	: [[File:Large Template.zip\|thumb]]
		+	:There are two cover pages here, one for a general report, another for a formal dissertation hand in.
		+	: This template will likely be updated soon