[texhax] LaTeX

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Hi Amoakoh,for learning I would suggest l2short.pdf from
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english. It should give you a
good overview. There are also numerous books, I would suggest the "LaTeX
Companion" by Frank Mittelbach et al.

Converting Word Objects to LaTeX may not be a really nice process, but:

1) Instead of converting to EPS, convert to PDF. pdflatex is more or less
the standard today, with its successors xelatex and lualatex. Unless you
have very special requirements start with pdflatex.

2) Assuming you have various objects drawn in Word I guess you need to
manually copy them and paste them e.g. in Corel Draw or Inkscape from where
you can save them as PDF. I am not aware of an automated way of doing so
from Word (I also don't have any Word here to check it.)

If you have diagrams from Excel: These can be saved in Excel directly to
PDF. It is even easily possible to write a VBA macro which saves all
diagrams from an Excel file to PDF.

Uwe





2012/4/9 A. Gyasi-Agyei <gyasi-agyei at gictrac-centre.org>
>
>
> Dear Uwe,
>>
>> Thanks for responding. I have just started to use TeXLive and want to find
>> the best
>>
>> - manual for it to learn it properly
>> - software to convert figures from doc (MS Word) to eps format so I can
>> attach to LaTeX files.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amoakoh
>>
>>
>> > 2012/4/8 A. Gyasi-Agyei <gyasi-agyei at gictrac-centre.org>
>> >
>> >> Dear TUG Managers,
>> >>
>> >> Happy Easter holidays. Please can you help me find:
>> >>
>> >> (1) The best manual for TeXLive implementation?
>> >>
>> >> (2) The best software to create encapsulated postscript (EPS) graphics
>> >> format?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks and greetings from Ghana
>> >>
>> >> Amoakoh
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Happy Easter wishes from Germany.
>> >
>> > What do you mean by implementation of TeXlive? What kind of graphics do
>> > you
>> > want to draw?
>> >
>> >
>> > Uwe
>> >
>> > --
>> > Uwe Ziegenhagen
>> > <http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Uwe Ziegenhagen
> <http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
>



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Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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