LaTeX/Q&A

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Contents 1 Who? 2 Cyrillic letters 3 splitting a project into files (\includeonly) 4 Using LaTeX on a website

[edit] Who?

Who wrote this? It seems a rather phenomenal piece of work! We'd love to publish an article or a notice about it in one of the TeX journals. I looked at the history of a couple pages, but the answer was not apparent ... anyway, thanks, whoever you are! --karl@tug.org

well, there is the authors section for this :-) I wrote lots of parts of the book. As you can see, we have the permission to include several existing books on LaTeX here. I have added most of the "not so short introduction...", but I still have to finish. As soon as I have a lot of free time (July I guess), I'll work on introducing all of them and this will be a very good book, (hopefully) having the best of all the others. The main good point is that LaTeX changes quite quickly, while most of the existing guides are really old and mostly outdated. This Wikibook gets updated continuously thanks to lots of contributors. I have seen lots of anonymous users fixing some smaller mistakes. Alessio Damato 08:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cyrillic letters

How can i write a text in cyrillic using "math" command? Is it possible? -- 82.209.211.118 15:01, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

>> According to Tobias Oetiker's "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTex2e", you need to add the the matext package before the fontenc package. Here is what might go at the top of the document:

\usepackage{mathtext} \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc} \DeclareSymbolFont{T2Aletters}{T2A}{cmr}{m}{it} % Italic cyrillic letters \usepackage[koi8-ru]{inputenc} \usepackage[english,bulgarian,russian,ukranian]{babel}

When you are in math mode, remember that to show regular text you use the {\text{}} command. I added extra braces because there are certain cases where you need them.

[edit] splitting a project into files (\includeonly)

I've been using \includeonly{} and \include{} as described under the advanced topics section of the wikibook, but am not sure the output is what it sould be: If I put a \label{marker} command in a file foo.1, and then put a \ref{marker} command in a file foo.2, then even though I use \includeonly{foo.1,foo.2} in the rootfile preamble and \include{foo.2} (and no other \include{} command) in the rootfile body, I'm told that the reference was undefined. I thought that \includeonly{} allowed one to preserve cross-references without having to process more than one wants to see. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- 132.161.33.86 18:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Using LaTeX on a website

Is it possible to use LaTeX on a personal website in much the same way it is used in Wikipedia, i. e. when LaTeX commands immediately appear as automatically generated picture files?

no you can't. Wikipedia stores the sources (containing LaTeX parts as well) and converts them to HTML and images before sending it to user's browser. You should use a software doing the same (or you can use WikiMedia, too), but you need to set up the server properly... Alessio Damato 16:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. 86.100.3.253 19:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

yes, it do is possible, using the right CGI-scripts