The prettiest document you've ever seen
Save The Vinyls
what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
and memman.pdf?
I'm looking for some inspiration.
Many thanks!
Save The Vinyls
Choice of serif fonts (different ones for headings and paragraphs)
would also be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Lars Madsen
those aren't particular pretty
the fontinstallation guide looks very nice.
--
/daleif (remove RTFSIGNATURE from email address)
LaTeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
LaTeX book: http://www.imf.au.dk/system/latex/bog/ (in Danish)
Remember to post minimal examples, see URL below
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl
http://www.minimalbeispiel.de/mini-en.html
Philipp Stephani
> what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
> and memman.pdf?
Everything written by Philipp Lehman.
--
Replace “READ-MY-SIG” by “tcalveu” to answer by mail.
Robin Fairbairns
>Save The Vinyls schrieb:
>> what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
>> and memman.pdf?
>
>Everything written by Philipp Lehman.
and the classicthesis documentation -- on ctan
macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis/ClassicThesis.pdf
the arsclassica package is based on classicthesis -- on ctan
macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica/ArsClassica.pdf
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Save The Vinyls
>
> those aren't particular pretty
>
> the fontinstallation guide looks very nice.
>
I absolutely agree. Seems it's by the same author Philipp Stephani
recommended too. Very simple, very clean!
Are there any more like that out there?
As for ClassicThesis.pdf, I think it's a bit too much especially for
what I'm trying to do. Maybe some other time though!
Many thanks!
William F. Adams (willadams@aol.com)
> and memman.pdf?
>
>
> Many thanks!
There are some very nice ones in the TeX Showcase (ob. discl. I've got
some stuff up there --- you might find _The Book of Tea_ of interest):
http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/
Agree w/ others re: Lehman's Font Installation Guide.
I've always looked to calligraphy and manuscript books for inspiration
--- see if a local library has _Letter Arts Review_
William
Karl Ove Hufthammer
> what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
> and memman.pdf?
The free ‘Motion Mountain’ textbook looks pretty damn good:
http://www.motionmountain.net/
--
Karl Ove Hufthammer
Uwe Ziegenhagen
Look at the example of tufte-latex:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex/
Uwe
Fr. Michael Gilmary
<willad...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Agree w/ others re: Lehman's Font Installation Guide.
Isn't that typeset with Minion Pro? It's included in your Adobe Reader
folder ... free!
fr. michael gilmary
Save The Vinyls
Thank you!
Save The Vinyls
wrote:
>
> Look at the example of tufte-latex:
>
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tufte-latex/
>
> Uwe
I find that exceptionally appealing...
Save The Vinyls
That's gotta be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen :-)
Thanks for the inspiration man!
Redd
Save The Vinyls
The Book of Tea that is!
Redd
Erik Quaeghebeur
>
> what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
> and memman.pdf?
>
> I'm looking for some inspiration.
Regarding the inspiration part, have a look at my thesis:
http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/EQ-2009-proefschrift.pdf
For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some
uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some
positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
Erik
Robin Fairbairns
>Regarding the inspiration part, have a look at my thesis:
>
>http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/EQ-2009-proefschrift.pdf
>
>For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some
>uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some
>positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
regard me as another offering positive comments. a nice piece of
work, indeed.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Turgut Durduran
> Regarding the inspiration part, have a look at my thesis:
>
> http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/EQ-2009-proefschrift.pdf
>
> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with some
> uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've recieved some
> positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is memoir-based.
>
Nice. I am surprised your institution allows free-formated/design heavy
dissertations but great work.
Lars Madsen
is it frequent that they pose much more strict rules? i.e. least common
demoninator (aka Word) defaults?
We do not have any rules about the layout either, we might do some
suggestions at some point, but if some one have the artistic abilities
then IMO they should not be hindered by rigorous rules.
Turgut Durduran
> is it frequent that they pose much more strict rules? i.e. least common
> demoninator (aka Word) defaults?
I know of USA universities and PhD dissertations. The formats often
pre-date MS-Word and even LaTeX. They tend to be very simple, no frills
formats. They specify margins, double spaced, some departments the
reference styles (others are more liberal about that), section header
styles etc. Decorative work within the text is allowed but nothing on
margins, paragraph separators etc.
ugdc
Lars Madsen
ahh, yes I've seen that, I help a student here on ctt, and she sent me a
PDF of the end result. It looked nice, but was totally ruined by the
double spaced requirement.
Robin Fairbairns
it's the sign of an institution that's not driven (entirely) by
bureaucrats. since i (re-)joined my present department in the early
90s, the requirements have swelled from the delightful "if the
dissertation is printed using a xerographic procedure, the candidate
shall ensure that the toner is properly fused" to the sort of hideous
specificity that you so often hear of in usanian universities.
the swelling of the spec has matched the swelling influence of the
board of graduate studies (bogs, though for some reason they like to
omit the "o"). the bogs used to be a small source of delay and a
laughing stock, now they're a huge source of delay and are jeered at
by all and sundry. (fwiw, when i was registered as a phd student,
they copied down my proposed diss title as if they'd transmitted it
around the bogs by chinese whispers. my supervisor advised me not to
try and correct them, just to present them with a final dissertation
with the correct title, at the end ... which i never did.)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez
Reading through your Preface reminded me of the amazing
first lines of Douady,
Le but de cette these est de munir son auteur du titre de Docteur.
(The purpose of this thesis is to provide its author with a PhD
diploma)
;-)
-- m
Tom Dye
The use of the margins and placing of figures is effective. Can you
share how you achieved this in memoir?
Tom
--
Tom Dye
T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawai`i
bev
I'm not sure this is THE prettiest document, but ArsClassica has to be
included in any list such as this:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/arsclassica/
For those who don't speak Italian, it doesn't matter in the least :-)
- Beverley Eyre
UCLA Magnetic MEMS Lab
Erik Quaeghebeur
>> >
>> > what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from lshort.pdf
>> > and memman.pdf?
>> >
>> > I'm looking for some inspiration.
> On 2009-05-06 14:48:20 -0700, Erik Quaeghebeur <equa...@nospammail.net>
> said:
>>
>> Regarding the inspiration part, have a look at my thesis:
>>
>> http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/EQ-2009-proefschrift.pdf
>>
>> For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design with
>> some uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and I've
>> recieved some positive comments regarding the typesetting. It is
>> memoir-based.
On Fri, 8 May 2009, Tom Dye wrote:
>
> The use of the margins and placing of figures is effective. Can you
> share how you achieved this in memoir?
For margin usage, it seems I (likely with some ctt-help) modified a
memoir-marginal note command (in one of the style files I made;
\strictpagechecking necessary for having correct page references):
\RequirePackage{ragged2e}
% marginpar paginering corrigeren
%\RequirePackage{mparhack}
\strictpagechecktrue
% marginpar instellingen
\setlength{\marginparsep}{1em}
\setlength{\marginparpush}{0pt}%{\baselineskip}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{\headextend-\marginparsep}
% sidenote commando
\providecommand*{\RaggedRight}{\raggedright}
\providecommand*{\RaggedLeft}{\raggedleft}
\newcommand{\sidenote}[1]{%
\@bsphack{%
% \strictpagechecktrue%
\checkoddpage%
\ifoddpage%
\marginpar{\footnotesize\RaggedRight #1}%
\else%
\marginpar{\footnotesize\RaggedLeft #1}%
\fi%
}\@esphack%
}
and then use this command; for example on p.69:
[...]
A simple illustration of an unbounded polyhedron is given on the side.
\sidenote{
\input{figuren/poly-constraint-tikz}
}
The Minkowski-Weyl theorem \citep{Fukuda-polyfaq} tells us that
[...]
For figure placement, I load and setup (in one of the style files I made)
\RequirePackage{wrapfig}
\newlength{\defaultintextsep}
\setlength{\defaultintextsep}{.5\baselineskip plus 1.2pt minus .6pt}
\setlength{\intextsep}{\defaultintextsep}
\newcommand*{\restoreintextsep}{\setlength{\intextsep}{\defaultintextsep}}
and then use the wrapfigure environment, which requires some manual
tweaking each time; for example on p.68:
[...]
This results in a very simple toy example, which is nevertheless very
illustrative.
\setlength{\intextsep}{0\defaultintextsep}
\begin{wrapfigure}[9]{o}[\headextend]{0pt}
\small
\input{figuren/toy-examp-tikz}
\end{wrapfigure}\restoreintextsep
Consider a tuple $\defn{h}{(\varabst{i}{\intint{1}{6}}{h_i})}$ of
constraints;
[...]
I'd be glad to share other aspects as well.
Erik
Tom Dye
As I suspected, the solution isn't trivial. I'm intrested, too, in
your method for placing citations in the margin and the style rule you
followed for deciding when to place a citation in the margin and when
to leave it in the body of the text.
I'm perplexed by how few style files are available on CTAN. This
thread has identified some of the most ambitious and interesting ones
I've seen, but compared to the number of packages for achieving some
general or specific effect, they are very few. There seems to be some
reticence to share these. Philip Lehman's coolly beautiful font
document, for instance, is created by a style file that he apparently
prefers not to release. This is not meant as a criticism, but rather
as an observation that perplexes me.
One partial answer to the original query on this thread is the
titlepages and chapter styles created and collected by Peter Wilson for
use with memoir.
Erik Quaeghebeur
>> > > > > what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from
>> > > > > lshort.pdf and memman.pdf? I'm looking for some inspiration.
>>
>> > On 2009-05-06 14:48:20 -0700, Erik Quaeghebeur
>> > <equa...@nospammail.net> said:
>> > >
>> > > Regarding the inspiration part, have a look at my thesis:
>> > >
>> > > http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/EQ-2009-proefschrift.pdf
>> > >
>> > > For this math-heavy text, I tried to combine a classic design
>> > > with some uncommon ideas. Some aspects turned out quite nice and
>> > > I've recieved some positive comments regarding the typesetting.
>> > > It is memoir-based.
Tom Dye:
>
> [...]. I'm intrested, too, in your method for placing citations in the
> margin and the style rule you followed for deciding when to place a
> citation in the margin and when to leave it in the body of the text.
Well, to be honest, no conscious method. But in hindsight, I guess that I
more or less stuck to the principle that only non-essential remarks or
references go in the margin, except of course when I refer to the material
in the margin explicitly (which I have done for drawings and such).
> I'm perplexed by how few style files are available on CTAN. This thread has
> identified some of the most ambitious and interesting ones I've seen, but
> compared to the number of packages for achieving some general or specific
> effect, they are very few. There seems to be some reticence to share these.
> Philip Lehman's coolly beautiful font document, for instance, is created by a
> style file that he apparently prefers not to release. This is not meant as a
> criticism, but rather as an observation that perplexes me.
Well, for me, it's that my style files grew as I worked on the project and
in the end that resulted in, let's say, an organic whole... Not everyhing
is well-separated. You're free to have a look at most of it
http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/proefschrift-style.zip
and scavenge what you want. I've not included my custom biblatex files,
they're far worse to start from than the biblatex manual and the biblatex
style files available. (My main personal touch, backrefs in the margin
are not hard to reproduce.)
Erik
Tom Dye
Thanks Erik. I appreciate your generosity. Your style files look
pretty tight to me, I don't know if I'd characterize them as "organic."
All the best, Tom.
Tariq
> >> > > On Fri, 1 May 2009, Save The Vinyls wrote:
> >> > > > > what's the prettiest document you've ever seen apart from
> >> > > > > lshort.pdf and memman.pdf? I'm looking for some inspiration.
>
> >> > On 2009-05-06 14:48:20 -0700, Erik Quaeghebeur
Hi Erik
Thanks for allowing us to look at your style files. They look very
nice. However, when I tried to compile your proefschrift.tex, I got
the error "memoir-proefschrift.tex" not found. Where can I get that
file? I would appreciate your help. Regards,
Tariq
Erik Quaeghebeur
>>
>> Well, for me, it's that my style files grew as I worked on the project and
>> in the end that resulted in, let's say, an organic whole... Not everyhing
>> is well-separated. You're free to have a look at most of it
>>
>> http://users.ugent.be/~equaeghe/downloads/proefschrift-style.zip
>>
>> and scavenge what you want.
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Tariq wrote:
>
> Thanks for allowing us to look at your style files. They look very
> nice. However, when I tried to compile your proefschrift.tex, I got
> the error "memoir-proefschrift.tex" not found. Where can I get that
> file? I would appreciate your help. Regards,
Dear Tariq,
I didn't provide all the source files for my thesis. The pdf is quite
freely distributable (CC AT-NC-SA license), but I prefer not making the
source public. What I've put on-line is essentially only the style files
I've used; so you won't be able to compile them. The two .tex files I
included were meant to give an idea of the project structure the .sty
files fit in.
Perhaps you could get it to compile by replacing the non-included files by
some (almost-)empty stubs and commenting out some parts (like
bibliography/indexes).
Erik
Tariq
Hi Erik
Thanks a lot for the detailed reply. I'll follow your advice and try
to compile some sort of minimal document. I do like your style files,
though and would like to copy some of the code for my work. I just
needed to look at the output (e.g., pdf) but did not know where to
find it. Hence my attempt to compile your source file. Thanks a bunch
for making the code available. Regards,
Tariq
Cameron Bracken
> and memman.pdf?
>
> I'm looking for some inspiration.
>
Late reply, but I have to mention the PGF/TikZ manual:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf
-Cameron