[OSGeo-Edu] Getting to work with Lyx and LaTex

[cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]

Thanks Landon for your update! Appreciated!

Status on my end. Maili Paige, Sasha Stepanov, Ned Horning and I have been
steadily working to convert our material to the Docbook format, and are about to
upload the "docbook source" and pdf versions it generates to the Education
group's Subversion system. Once we do that, we'll get a new page on the wiki
that links to the pdfs. We also will be working on a new version of our material
in preparation for a Spring 2009 Intro to Spatial Technologies course I am
teaching.

I'm hoping we get short directions to you all on our Subversion strategy soon,
and I hope others who are creating tutorials and course material will use this
repository for releases.

If any others on this list would like to provide an update on what they are
doing, please do! I'd like to breathe a little new life into our group!

If people think it is better to schedule an IRC chat, let me know.

Cheers
Charlie

Quoting Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com>:

> I've taken a break from any OSGeo writing for the last few weeks. I'm
> trying to get (at least partially) back on the ball. I'd like to get a
> LaTex version of my metadata chapter for the Free GIS Book done this
> month, and then I'd like to do some more work on the dictionary.
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> I've got LyX and MikiTex installed on my laptop, and I'd like to try
> using those tools to prepare the LaTex files. However, I seem to have
> run into trouble with one aspect of LaTex. I thought I would check here
> to see if someone had a solution.
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> I'd like to have specific categories of text rendered using specific
> fonts. This is similar to how the <code> tag works in HTML. Is it
> possible to do this with LaTex? Can you define your own custom "tags" to
> control styling? For example: Can I define a "definition" tag and then
> assign a font to this tag when producing PDF output?
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> I'm not a heavy user of LaTex, so I hope that my question makes sense.
> Perhaps I am looking for more control over the appearance of a document
> generated from LaTex than is really possible.
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