Search (courtesy of Google) The online journal of the Table of Contents Issue 2012, Number 1 [Published 2012-10-22] TeX Users Group ISSN 1556-6994 About The PracTeX The PracTeX Journal 2012-1 Journal General information Editorial: LaTeX in the IT World Submit an item News from Around Download style files Feedback from readers - math formatting, missing chess piece Copyright Contact us Whole issue PDF About RSS feeds Articles Archives of The PracTeX Formatting Sweave and LaTeX Documents in APA Style, Brian D. Beitzel Journal The Vocal Tract LaTeX Package, Dimitrios Ververidis, Daniel Schneider, and Joachim Köhler Back issues Writing Posters with Beamerposter Package in LaTeX, Han Lin Shang Author index Title index Seeing Stars, Jim Hefferon BibTeX bibliography TeX in the eBook Era, Luca Merciadri Hongbin Ma Next issue Easy-to-use Chinese MTEX Suite, Spring 2013 Bashful Writing and Active Documents, Yossi Gil Documenting ITIL processes with LaTeX (Portuguese), Rayans Carvalho and Francisco Reinaldo Editorial board Technical Notes Lance Carnes, editor Avoid eqnarray!, Lars Madsen Kaja Christiansen Peter Flom Columns Hans Hagen Ask Nelly Robin Laakso Distraction - Guitar Chords and Font quizzes Tristan Miller Tim Null Book Reviews - LaTeX and Friends by Marc R.C. van Dongen Arthur Ogawa Steve Peter Yuri Robbers Will Robertson Other key people More key people wanted Sponsors: Be a sponsor! Web site Generated October 22, 2012 (wiki); TUG home page; search; contact webmaster. Search (courtesy of Google) The online journal of the Table of Contents Issue 2012, Number 1 [Published 2012-10-22] TeX Users Group ISSN 1556-6994 About The PracTeX Editorial — LaTeX in the IT World Journal General information Francisco Reinaldo Submit an item Paul Blaga Download style files Comment on this Copyright Contact us About RSS feeds Archives of The PracTeX In This Issue Journal Back issues Software systems for document preparation, project management, and requirements analysis are continually evolving. Author index There is no limit to how much these systems can expand and become a more significant force in computerized Title index automation. In this issue of the PracTeX Journal we present several articles by authors involved in these areas, with the BibTeX bibliography hope that their experiences and techniques using LaTeX and other TeX tools will be useful to others. Next issue Not too long ago there was a fairly small number of LaTeX and TeX users, and they concentrated mostly on math and Spring 2013 scientific documents. As LaTeX and TeX matured over the years and became more accessible, it was natural that they would be used more in Information Technology. Today, there are countless universities, research organizations, and Editorial board commercial enterprises using TeX in IT. Lance Carnes, editor Kaja Christiansen This issue grew beyond what we expected at the outset. Although it's a very specific area, it generated a lot of interest --- Peter Flom we had over 1,800 hits on the pre-release web site. Hans Hagen Robin Laakso I hope you enjoy reading the articles, and be sure to give us feedback by clicking the links next to each article. Tristan Miller Articles Tim Null Arthur Ogawa The first article, Formatting Sweave and LaTeX Documents in APA Style, by Brian D. Beitzel, explains the use of the class Steve Peter aps6.cls for preparing manuscripts to be submitted to American Psychological Association's journals, according to its 6th Yuri Robbers edition Publication Manual. Will Robertson Other key people The second paper, The Vocal Tract LaTeX Package, by Dimitrios Ververidis, Daniel Schneider, and Joachim Köhler, is More key people wanted dealing with the package VocalTract.sty, devoted to the visualisation of the vocal tract. The next paper, Writing Posters with Beamerposter Package in LaTeX, by Han Lin Shang, discusses the use of the package beamerposter, a LaTeX tool for creating conference posters as well as some connected packages. In Seeing stars, James S. Hefferon shows how to create star symbols with MetaPost for rating a web page. In TeX in the eBook Era, Luca Merciadri emphasizes the advantages of using eBooks, in connection with LaTeX-composed documents. The following paper, Easy-to-use Chinese MTEX Suite, Hongbin Ma describes, to use his own words, "an easy-to-use and easy-to-learn Chinese MTeX Suite". It was developed by Hongbin Ma and friends in order to provide Chinese LaTeX users with a compact TeX distribution. In Bashful Writing and Active Documents, Joseph Gil discusses a new paradigm in computer science, active documents. These offer ways of presenting users with documents that change in response to exterior events. The author proposes a new package, bashful, and documents created with this package, in the author's own words, "extend the user interaction offered by active documents to the time of the document creation". Finally, the article by Rayans Carvalho and Francisco Reinaldo, Documenting ITIL processes with LaTeX (Portuguese), presents a LaTeX-based processes and services documentation tool, as suggested by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library . Columns Ask Nelly answers some questions about the customization of lists in LaTeX and about creating logos with LaTeX. The Distraction demonstrates a package writing guitar chords, and offers some entertaining font quizzes. Thanks The PracTeX Journal thanks the production editors - Lance Carnes and Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan - who worked hard with us to create this issue. Dave Witte Morris carefully copy edited several articles. Thanks to all for helping out. It takes many hours to edit the articles and put together the web site, and working with this team makes it a pleasure to do. Colin Shanafelt of Gatsbylight.com provided a free license of "Easy Grader" publishing software for each production editor. This software is a a useful tool for teachers, reviewers, and others who evaluate written material. This donation is much appreciated. Francisco Reinaldo Paul Blaga Sponsors: Be a sponsor! Web site Generated October 22, 2012 (wiki); TUG home page; search; contact webmaster. Search (courtesy of Google) The online journal of the Table of Contents Issue 2012, Number 1 [Published 2012-10-22] TeX Users Group ISSN 1556-6994 About The PracTeX News from Around Journal General information News From Around Submit an item Download style files Copyright Editors Contact us Comment on this article About RSS feeds Archives of The PracTeX Journal LaTeX Blogs Back issues Author index See the LaTeX Community blog for LaTeX articles, blogs, and contests. It is edited by Stefan Kottwitz, author of LaTeX Title index Beginner's Guide. BibTeX bibliography Next issue Spring 2013 Editorial board Lance Carnes, editor Kaja Christiansen Peter Flom Hans Hagen Robin Laakso Tristan Miller Tim Null Arthur Ogawa Steve Peter Yuri Robbers Will Robertson Other key people More key people wanted Sponsors: Be a sponsor! Web site Generated October 22, 2012 (wiki); TUG home page; search; contact webmaster. Search (courtesy of Google) The online journal of the Table of Contents Issue 2012, Number 1 [Published 2012-10-22] TeX Users Group ISSN 1556-6994 About The PracTeX Feedback from readers Journal General information Editors Submit an item Comment on this article Download style files Copyright Contact us About RSS feeds Contents Archives of The PracTeX 1 Feedback from readers Journal 1.1 Math italic d vs roman d Back issues 1.2 Displayed equations Author index 1.3 Redefining LaTeX math commands Title index 1.4 Missing chess piece BibTeX bibliography Next issue Spring 2013 Math italic d vs roman d Editorial board While preparing the article LaTeX teaching techniques, Lenore Horner for the 2011-1 issue the proofreader and author Lance Carnes, editor disagreed over the use of an italic d vs an upright or roman d. Kaja Christiansen Peter Flom Proofreader Calleecharan Hans Hagen Robin Laakso [Horner] writes $ \frac{ds}{dt} $ on page 3. The differential operator "d" should be upright and not in italic. Tristan Miller Tim Null Arthur Ogawa Author Horner Steve Peter Yuri Robbers I made the changes in the derivative notation because the argument that the derivative is an operation and so Will Robertson shouldn't look like a variable made sense to me. I later checked every single math and physics book on my Other key people shelves at home (I have another shelf-full at school that I keep forgetting to check) and not a single one of More key people wanted them - including the one by an author who had his wife write a font for the TRS-80 to properly typeset his book - writes the derivative in any way differently from the variable d. I guess LaTeX is out to change the way we write math in this case. We asked a well-known math book publisher and TeX expert, Michael Spivak. Should dx/dy have an italic d or a roman d? For centuries, of course, mathematicians have used an italic d. Then some standards committee or other decided it should be roman d, since italic letters are reserved for variables. As far as I know, $e^{i\pi}=-1$ is still written with an italic e and an italic i, but perhaps they were worried about Emerson's hobgoblin of small minds. I believe the roman d flag is now carried by physicists and engineers, but don't know that many mathematicians who use it. I haven't yet seen a Calculus book that uses a roman d, though there's almost certainly an enthusiast somewhere who has written one. Claudio Beccari cites the ISO standard for this (and also published an article on it in TUGBoat ten years ago): The roman d (differential), the roman i or j (imaginary unit), the roman e (base of natural logarithms) must be typed in upright type by an ISO regulation, but it deals only with typesetting mathematics in Science and Technology.