template.tex This
important file should be used as a template which you must follow closely
in preparing your reports.
The file template.tex will ask for the following files when
you compile it. Download these into your local directory.
fig1.eps This figure file
is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.
fig2.eps This figure file
is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.
fig3.eps This figure file
is needed when you compile template.tex. Right click to save it.
Unix instructions for generating a finished product:
latex template.tex [This does most of the work and creates
the file template.dvi (dvi=device independent) along with many other files]
dvips -o template.ps template.dvi [This creates a postscript
file template.ps, which is also very useful and can be viewed using "ghostview
template.ps"]
distill template.ps [This converts the postscript file into
a .pdf file]
acroread template.pdf [This lets you view the .pdf file,
which works on a wide variety of machines.]
template.pdf This is
what you should get after LaTeXing template.tex, using dvips to convert
it to postscript, and using distill to convert it to pdf.
You may also find the pair of files below to be useful as
well.
sample.tex Another .tex file with
some more examples of how to format things. Right click to save.
sample.figure.eps A sample
figure which is called upon by sample.tex. Right click to save.
TeXcookbook.pdf A short document
which has a lot of special mathematics symbols in LaTeX format.
simple_plot.m A short matlab .m file
that gives a simple plot with error bars and a straight line curve fit.
leastsquare.pdf A short
description of a robust way to use straightforward linear algebra
techniques to get least squares curve fits to a variety of general functions
which are linear in the curve fit parameters.