On Jan 10, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Kyle Swank wrote:
As far as MLA is concerned, it's a style guide for both bibliographies and the actual text of the document. If you search around online you can find more free information, but http://www.mla.org/ has a few bits of info.
I'd guess you just need to find the appropriate class. A google search for "MLA and LaTeX" might give you more info on that. I found this: http://www.walfield.org/pub/people/neal/mla/ And you can find some info related to the bibliography here: http:// web.reed.edu/cis/help/BibTeXstandard.html I always just use the document classes article or amsart anyway, so I haven't looked much into it.
I'm mostly interested in conforming to my professors standard "name, date, class" information in the upper right corner of the first page. I'll mostly be using this for writing papers, while it might take longer right now to do as opposed to using word, i imagine knowing latex will make writing other documents later easier. Not to mention i like the idea of not having to control the style stuff so much and then make sure everything else corresponds exactly to the other way i did it.
You might need to find an appropriate style sheet, or just create your own. Again, I don't mess around much with the layout, so you might have better chance asking at the tex list.
But yes, a full "latex" screencast would rock. I know my questions were mostly unrelated to textmate, and i'm sorry for that. this is the only list i'm subscribed to that has anything remotely related to latex in it.
no need to apologize. I was the one apologizing in advance, for why I might not do such a screencast for a while.
Subscribing to that other latex mailing list now.
Anyone recommend any great tutorial sites? I've seen a few and they're ok, but i'm curious if i'm missing anything. Any latex spotlight plugins? :-P
There's a number of good books, you might consider getting your hands on one. Good for reference. Best thing is to just ask around when you want to do something particular.
Kyle
Haris