{"id":1178,"date":"2008-10-28T09:28:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T08:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2009-03-14T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T09:29:50","slug":"designing-with-latex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/works\/designing-with-latex","title":{"rendered":"Designing with LaTeX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Designing with TeX: episode I<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"OSP is currently working on a book containing essays, interviews and images following from the Constant festival\/seminar Tracks in electronic fields<\/strong><\/a> and we are laying it out in LaTeX<\/a>!<\/p>\n

LaTeX is a tool developed in the context of academic publishing, specifically for technical or scientific documents. It combines markup \u00e0 la CSS with powerful algorithms automatizing widow \/ orphan control and intelligent image placement.<\/p>\n

We’ve grown more and more interested in LaTeX because it is specifically developed for typographically sane paper publications, and as far as you can get from regular canvas-based typesetting. We are also curious to experience from up close the sophisticated typographic system developed by Donald Knuth<\/a>.
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\nHow will we be able to design with LaTeX? Will we need to change our workflow? Space for experiment and playing around? Can we use the design patterns built in to the tool, in another context? Will the book ‘look-and-feel’ like a scientific publication in the end?<\/p>\n

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There are several reasons to want to know the definitions of LaTeX commands: from the simplest \u201cidle curiosity\u201d, to the pressing need to patch something to make it \u201cwork the way you want it\u201d. None of these are pure motives, but knowledge and expertise seldom arrive through the purest of motives.<\/em>
\nhttp:\/\/www.tex.ac.uk\/cgi-bin\/texfaq2html?label=ltxcmds<\/small><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Installing fonts in LaTEX has the name of being a very hard task to accomplish. But it is nothing more than following instructions. However, the problem is that, ?rst, the proper instructions have to be found and, second, the instructions then have to be read and understood.
\nhttp:\/\/www.ntg.nl\/maps\/29\/13.pdf<\/small><\/a> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ivan and Pierre are the OSP’s to take the first plunge. Ivan has tetex<\/code> installed on his Gentoo system, and Pierre texlive<\/code> on Ubuntu. Getting the Belgian-French Azerty keyboard working was not easy, and also installing other fonts than the default took some time. But once done, they are quickly producing those typical academic standard publications from OpenOffice documents, though this time with quite a different kind of content.<\/p>\n

The book is planned to come out before the end of this years so we will report back with more concrete design samples soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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