Renaissance Research Labs - Tex References

Getting Tex (pronounced Tek)

For those interested in why it is pronounced Tek, the last letter is the Greek letter chi, not the English x.

CTAN (Comprehensive Tex Archive Network)
TUG (Tex Users Group)
WinEdt Windows editor
Miktex Windows Tex application
GSView Windows Postscript viewer

Using Tex

CTAN's getting started guide gives you all you need to know plus a list to a number of really useful guides. This is probably the best place to start.
Graphics: epslatex is the standard way to include eps files in a tex document.
Graphics: using Windows graphics in Tex.
Graphics: a good overview of graphics in Tex.
Tex has lots of symbols you can use.
The English Tex FAQ is a great source of information.
A great coverage can be found in the (not so) short introduction to Tex.
Peter Flynn has a nice manual, Formatting Information and it is even copyleft!
Another good online manual is LaTeX Tricks
A good reference for thesis and discertation formatting is Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis. Note this one is a pdf.

sbthesis.cls

Updated January 25, 2009. Make sure you have the latest copy (version 1.1.2), somehow my fixes from November were only partly implemented on the web version. Note the guide has also changed slightly. Please read the guide, it is short and answers most people's questions.

sbthesis.cls
Guide [pdf][tex]
test.tex test file for sbthesis
6view.eps figure used in test file
test.bbl test file bibliography
KeithComp.bib BibTex file used by test.tex
Some Mac users have said they can't get thesis.cls for their Mac installation. Copy all the files and put it in your tex path (something like: "\tex\latex\thesis\"). You will probably need to make the directory and then tell your tex distribution to reread the path (so it finds it). Most tex editors put a button or menu item to do this, but each is different so I can't cover them all here.