TeXin' at TAMU EE

In addition, we have some information on using Microsoft Word for thesis writing.

Online Help for TeX/LaTeX

Thesis Manuals

EE Thesis

1.  LaTeX

If you do not have access to the EESUN machines but would like to use EE Thesis, please download the classes from the TAMU EE TeX Download Page.

Your thesis must conform to the thesis guidelines given by the Graduate Studies Office and described in the Thesis Manual. The Thesis Manual is on-line or purchasable at all campus copy centers. The EE Thesis tries to follow these guidelines as closely as possible. If you find any problems trying to follow the guidelines using EE Thesis, please email tex@ee.tamu.edu.

Hints on using EE Thesis:

• Do NOT copy your friend's thesis and replace the text. Obtain a fresh copy of the EE Thesis template from the TAMU EE TeX Download Page or on the EESUN system at /jumbo/teTeX/share/texmf.local/source/eethesis_template.
• Read the EE Thesis manual. It is not long. It will save you much time and effort.
• Try not to be too creative with typesetting your thesis. Even if you don't feel your thesis looks good, the thesis clerk is the final judge on the matter. The thesis should pass with the current style definitions.
• Use BibTeX. This will allow LaTeX to format the bibliographies so you don't have to worry about all of the punctuation. Of course, you can use the same BibTeX database file in other reports and papers.
• Use a spelling checker. Use ispell from Emacs or Unix. From Unix use the -t option, for example ispell -t ch1.tex. EESUN has an on-line dictionary called webster or xwebster which can be used to look up definitions and as a thesaurus.
• Use xemacs. XEmacs has lots of support for LaTeX.

Bugs in EE Thesis

• If the last page of the table of contents begins with bibliography or an appendix, there will be an extra CHAPTER heading. Use white-out to remove the heading and copy the page onto blueline paper.

EE Memo / EE Letter

2. Microsoft Word

TeX Distributions

UNIX - teTeX

MS Windows - PCTeX

If you are not an ELEN student:

1. Several department at Texas A&M have licenses. Please check with your department.
2. Check the CIS Site License page for details on obtaining the software from SELL.
3. Try MikTeX: Free TeX For Windows.

Beginning LaTeX

• Freely available:
• The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e (PS) (PDF)
• Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX2e (PS) (PDF)
• LaTeX2e for Authors
• LaTeX2e help 1.6
• At the bookstore (MSC):
• Lamport, Leslie. LaTeX: A Documentation Preparation System. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-52983-1.
• Goossens, et. al. The LaTeX Companion. Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-54199-8.

BibTeX

• BibTeXing
• Referencing Electronic Media Using eethesis with BibTeX (PS) (DVI)
• Writing bibliography files for Hypatia - Lots of good techniques and examples for creating and using BibTeX database.
• Styleguide from the Computational Learning Bibliography

• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - Searchable database of more than 940,000 references in BibTeX
• Bibliography Formats - General information about many bibliography formats.

Support Software

Editing LaTeX in XEmacs

LaTeX2HTML

Please check TAMU EE Software and Textbook Links for information on other software packages at TAMU EE.

Microsoft Users

• If you are using Microsoft Word to typeset your thesis and are developing templates or stylesheets, please send me e-mail. I would like to distribute these for student use. You may also be interested in the Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors.
• Some care must be taken when generating EPS files in Windows programs. Generally, the Windows programs will make the bounding box the entire page no matter what size the image is. To generate EPS files for inclusion in LaTeX,
1. Install Adobe's PostScript Printer Driver. See details in the PCTeX Local Installation Note.
2. Print the graphic to a file using the Adobe PostScript Printer Driver. Be sure to add the .eps file extension.
3. Load the file in gsview. Under the File menu select PS to EPS. Select Automatically generate bounding box in the dialog box and save the file.
4. In the .tex file, add the clip option to the \includegraphics command. For example, \cludegraphics[width=\textwidth,clip]{file.eps}

Miscellaneous

• IEEE information for authors - IEEE Transactions LaTeX and Microsoft Word Style Files