Joint Advanced Student School (JASS)

Organizational Matters

Contact:

Johannes Nowak, Email: nowakj@in.tum.de

Paper Preparation

Papers should be prepared with LaTeX. The files ausarbeitung.ps and ausarbeitung.tex can be used to get started.

Slides with Powerpoint

Here is a template that you can use: JASS04_template.pot. It is automatically presented in powerpoint, if copied to the directory
C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\%username%\Anwendungsdaten\Microsoft\Vorlagen
or
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

Slides with seminar

The files muster_folien.ps and muster_folien.tex can be used to get started.

Slides with TeXPower

Download texpower-0-1b.tar.gz
Unpack and
install texpower
- as described in the file texpower-0-1b/01install.txt
- locally in your $HOME/.TeX/ directory (if it exists) by copying the files powersem.cls texpower.sty tpcolors.cfg tpoptions.cfg tpsettings.cfg contrib/config.landscapeplus addons/*.sty to ~/.TeX/
Then replace the files tpcolors.cfg tpsettings.cfg powersem.cls by those in our configuration package texpower-config.tgz
Install the files pdfslides.sty abakus.eps abakus.pdf lea-logo.eps lea-logo.pdf either locally or globally (like step 1)
Run the the testfile:
latex pdfslides.tex
dvips -o pdfslides.ps pdfslides.dvi
ps2pdf pdfslides.ps pdfslides.pdf
acroread pdfslides.pdf
Alternatively:
pdflatex pdfslides.tex
acroread pdfslides.pdf
Most packages should be included in your LaTeX distribution. It works with teTeX (standard at least on Linux). Otherwise, you can get missing packages from CTAN. An online search interface is available at: Dante/CTAN

Enter the pacakge name that is missing, i.e. "pstricks". This yields the directories where to find the package, here "graphics/pstricks/" Connect via ftp to ftp.dante.de set the mode to binary and go to the parent directory (here "/pub/tex/graphics/"). You can then retrieve the whole subdirectory with
get .tgz
or
get .zip
(here "get pstricks.tgz").

Further alternatives for slides

Any other alternative that produces PDF-presentations can be used. Prosper is a widely used seminar replacement.