Sunday, December 4, 2011

LaTeX

Akhirnyaa............... berjaya jugak aku solve problem yang sepatutnya bukan problem... hahahhaa.... well... kalu blaja sendiri mmg camnih... the learning curve sometimes looks like stock market... up and down... and sometimes could hardly get the slope to +ve pattern... anyway... anyhow... maybe I just jot it down here in for future use... :)

Software:-
Ghostscript
GSView 
MiKTeX 2.9
TeXstudio 2.2

Ghostscript & GSView are essential to run LaTeX. Without these two softwares, LaTeX could also run but I would suggest to install them to avoid any unnecessary problems in the future... The installation is straight forward... Click and follow the instruction...

MiKTeX 2.9 is one the best software on windows platform... The installation also quite straightforward and could take sometime to finish. I strongly suggest to tick on the option "install missing plugin on-the-fly" (or the like) to ease up the installation process. Otherwise, you need to wait in front of the pc and click on every pop up that will come out for about 15-30 minutes.

TeXstudio 2.2 is a very userfriendly software for beginners. It will assist the user without the need to type full command as it will display the related command in "drop down list" as you type. You need to configure the Quick build to "LaTeX + DviPs + Ps2Pdf + Pdf Viewer" to allow .eps file to be displayed correctly using package "\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}"

Sometimes, the template provided by the conference organizer ie. IEEE must be altered to meet the requirement set. You don't need to push yourself to edit .cls file but instead just use "\renewcommand"... For my case, I need to use "\renewcommand{\figurename}{Figure}" & "\renewcommand{\IEEEkeywordsname}{Keyword}" to set the figure caption as "Figure" instead of "Fig." and "Keyword" instead of "Key-Index"..

All command:-

\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\renewcommand{\figurename}{Figure}
\renewcommand{\IEEEkeywordsname}{Keyword}

need to be loaded AFTER "\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}" call.

The rest could be "easily" learn :) from the template.... just follow the template provided....

I could rest happily tonite...

Peace!!! No War!!!
Kami Benci Rasuah!!!
Yang Salah Tetap Salah!!!

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