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<h2>The TeX showcase</h2>
<p>This is the TeX showcase, edited by <strong>Gerben Wierda</strong>. It
contains <em>extreme</em> examples of what you can do with TeX, the
typesetting engine from Donald Knuth, world famous mathematician, computer
scientist and above all well known for TeX. I will try to keep this showcase
small. For remarks on submissions, see at the end of this document.</p>
<p>For an introduction to TeX, please visit the <a
href="http://tug.org/begin.html">TUG "Getting Started" page</a>, and
especially <a href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/first-latex-doc">the section on
the first LaTeX document</a>, and in this section the <a
href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/first-latex-doc/first-latex-doc.pdf">PDF
file of example first document with embedded explanation</a>. I want to add to
this:
<p>You can compare a Word Processor (e.g. MS Word) setup to a TeX setup as a
Camper (or RV) versus having a house and a car. The Camper is for everything:
you can live in it, you can drive with it and you can look at it. The Word
Processor is like a Camper: it does editing, formatting/typesetting, and
displaying. It is not excellent at any of these functions, but the combination
is pretty neat. In a TeX setup, these functions are separated, like with
having a house and a car. You have a separate editor of your own liking to
edit, and you have TeX to do the actual typesetting/formatting. Especially
when using macro packages like LaTeX or ConTeXt, you write
</em>conceptually</em> and not visually and you leave the visual aspects to
the TeX engine, which (generally) produces a PDF file. You need another
program again (a PDF Viewer like Acrobat or Preview on the Mac) to read or
print the result. Word Processors have improved on their typesetting
algorithms, but they still do not reach the quality level of TeX just yet (I
am writing this on Jan 2, 2014). TeX still produces the best looking typeset
text and mathematical formulas on the planet. And writing conceptually instead
of visually is really nice. You can concentrate on content and you do not have
to worry about layout.
<p>Some things are, however, difficult to do in TeX. Mostly these are the
kind of things where you want very fine-grained control over exact positioning
of images, wrapping around these images, etc. You can do this in TeX, but it
is often (very) cumbersome to get it right and changes may be a lot of work.
For this, people use (very expensive) Desktop Publishing (layout) setups, like
Adobe InDesign (which generally also have better typesetting algorithms than
Word Processors, (almost) matching the quality of TeX) in text (though not in
mathematical formulas). TeX, on the other hand, is free. The showcase shows
(amongst other things) the limits of what people have been able to do with TeX
in the 'special effects' category. Some of these are really TeX-specific
tricks (e.g <a href="diminuendo.pdf">this example (PDF)</a>, which only works
because TeX is a programming language, zoom in as far as you can, don't try to do this in MS Word, InDesign etc.).
<p> In this showcase, you will not only find examples of material prepared
with TeX proper, but also with macro packages like LaTeX, ConTeXt and with
related programs like METAPOST. And though TeX is a typesetting language, you
will find graphics and even an MPEG movie. </p>
<p>Showcases are mostly PDF files. Some PDF files contain tricks that only
work in certain PDF-viewers, e.g. they might contain automatic changes in the
page that work in certain versions of Acrobat and only when certain
preferences are set. The descriptions will contain special instructions if
any.</p>
<p>Most examples come with some sort of source. <em>These sources are not
guaranteed to compile, they are only there for visual inspection.</em> Some
may compile, but some may have parts missing.</p>
<p> Some of these examples were prepared using proprietary fonts or
software that must be purchased. For a discussion of font usage with
TeX, including a sampler of available free fonts, please see this
<a href="http://www.tug.org/fonts/">separate font page</a>.
</p>
<p>One word on the sections. These are generated automatically from a database
and their titles speak for themselves. The exception is the section <i>Yannis
Haralambous</i>. Yannis is famous in the world of TeX for his work on
typesetting several languages (like Greek and Hebrew) with TeX. He donated a
series of samples. The Hebrew and Syrian fonts are bitmaps, they might not
look perfect in all circumstances.</p>
<h3>Index</h3>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#yannis">Yannis Haralambous</a>
<li> <a href="#math">Mathematics</a>
<li> <a href="#dynamics">Dynamic documents</a>
<li> <a href="#languages">Languages of the world</a>
<li> <a href="#graphics">Graphics</a>
<li> <a href="#text">General Typesetting</a>
<li> <a href="#misc">Miscellanous</a>
</ul>
<h3><a name=yannis>Yannis Haralambous</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample08.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample08.jpg" alt="yannis_sample08.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>An Arabic text written by Idris Samawi Hamid, with full Arabic vowelization.
The font used is Monotype Naskhi with hundreds of additions designed by
Atelier Fluxus Virus.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample09.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample09.jpg" alt="yannis_sample09.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>The beginning of the Book of Genesis, in Hebrew. Typesetting and font are from
the Tiqwah system, by Yannis Haralambous. The critical appartus is taken from
the <i>Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia</i>. The font is designed in Metafont
(this explains the bad display by Acrobat).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample05.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample05.jpg" alt="yannis_sample05.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from the journal <i>Inscriptiones graecae</i>. The Greek font used is
New Hellenic, with additional glyphs designed by Atelier Fluxus Virus for
epigraphical texts.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample07.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample07.jpg" alt="yannis_sample07.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>The same Arabic inscription in four styles: Nastaliq, Diwani, Thuluth and
Ruqaah.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample01.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample01.jpg" alt="yannis_sample01.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from the book <i>Mikael</i> by Theophan�s Ioannou, published in Greece
by Indiktos (May 2003). Theophan�s is a new author and good friend of ours. He
has commissioned the Atelier Fluxus Virus to design the font used in this
sample, out of the <i>Complete Works of Aristotle</i> edited by Bekker in
Leipzig, in the early 19th century. We have called this font <i>Bekkeriana</i>
in honour of Bekker, and all of Theophan�s' works will be published in it.
This requires a lot of courage, because in contemporary Greece---contrarily to
Europe---there is great reluctance against typefaces older than 50-70 years.
We hope that this editorial attempt will bring the Greek public of readers
closer to their national typographical heritage, and not only for facsilimiles
or simulations of historical typography, but also for modern texts, as is this
one.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample13.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample13.jpg" alt="yannis_sample13.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Amharic from <i>Miraculorum S. Georgii Magelomartyris</i>, from the
collection <i>Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium</i>, with critical
apparatus.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample02.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample02.jpg" alt="yannis_sample02.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>These two pages are taken from the Greek edition of Giambattista Bodoni's
<i>Manuale Typographico</i> (published by Agra, in 2003), a landmark in the
history of typography. The font used in the title page has been designed by
Atelier Fluxus Virus especially for this occasion: it is the genuine Greek
capital letters typeface of Bodoni, as it is presented in this very book. (continued with next sample)
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample04.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample04.jpg" alt="yannis_sample04.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A double page (original ancient Greek text and modern Greek translation) from
Lucian's <i>Alexander or the False Prophet</i>, published by Agra (collection
<i>Melaina Chol�</i> in 2003. The font used for the ancient Greek text is
Monotype Porson, except for the capital letters which have been designed by
Atelier Fluxus Virus out of 19th century Oxford editions. Notice that capitals
are straight while lowercase letters are slanted. The fonts used for the
modern Greek text are Monotype Greek 90 and Greek 91.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample10.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample10.jpg" alt="yannis_sample10.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Judeo-spanish, from <i>The Judeo-Spanish Ballad Chapbooks of Yacob
Abraham Yon&aacute;</i>. Text in quadratic and Rashi script.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample11.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample11.jpg" alt="yannis_sample11.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page of Bar Hebraeus, <i>Chronicon Ecclesiasticum</i> in Syriac (Serto
script) and Latin translation. The Syriac part had been typeset using Sabra
system (by Yannis Haralambous).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample06.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample06.jpg" alt="yannis_sample06.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A page from Ibn Rush's <i>Commentaries on Aristotle's Book of Categories</i>,
in Arabic. On the upper side, the text by Ibn Rush, on the lower side the
Arabic version of Aristotle's text. Each one of these parallel texts has a
critical apparatus.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample12.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample12.jpg" alt="yannis_sample12.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>A text in Coptic, from <i>Apocryphon Johannis in the Nag Hammadi Codex II</i>.
The font used is Monotype Coptic.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample14.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample14.jpg" alt="yannis_sample14.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>From a critical edition of Saranadeva's <i>Durghatavrtti</i>, in Sanskrit
(Devanagari script).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="yannis_sample03.pdf"><img src="yannis_sample03.jpg" alt="yannis_sample03.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>(continued) The
font used in the text is a very special Greek font, designed by Atelier Fluxus
Virus out of hot lead types. It is called <i>dekaexaria</i>, which means "16
points", and is a hot lead typeface which has never been adapted to Linotype
or Monotype machines and has been used very frequently in chapter titles or
cover pages, and for entire books in bibliophilic collections. It is an
extremely vivid font and has very special accents and kernings. It is one of
these fonts where each individual glyph looks badly drawn, but the global
image of text looks very appealing. There is only one hic: it has nothing to
do with Bodoni, and is rather historically connected to the Didot school.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=math>Mathematics</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="cheat.pdf"><img src="cheat.jpg" alt="cheat.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="cheat-20131114.tar.gz">cheat-20131114.tar.gz</a> </td><td>Note, the source is a gzip compressed tar archive.
<p>Submitter <strong>Martin Jansche</strong> writes:
<p>Here's an example of TeX formatting many many equations under tight space
constraints: Steve Seiden's theoretical computer science cheat sheet,
which used to be available from http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~seiden/#cheat.
Quoting the web page:
<blockquote>
I grant permission for you to reproduce this cheat sheet, and
redistribute it for educational purposes only. You may not reproduce
it for profit. If you reproduce it, you must not alter or delete my
copyright.
</blockquote>
GW 2003: I have been informed that its author, Steve Seiden, died in 2002 as the
result of an accident while riding his bike. As I cannot ask for permission anymore, I have taken the liberty of fixing errors reported to me.
<p>GW 2013: I have been informed by Raphael Reitzig of two errors, which have been fixed (notes in the .tex files)
<p>GW 2016: The current distribution does not properly compile, Escher's Knot is missing. I include a fixed pdf, but the source still needs repairing. Help welcome.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=dynamics>Dynamic documents</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="Automaton.pdf"><img src="Automaton.jpg" alt="Automaton.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Automaton.tex">Automaton.tex</a> </td><td>This example shows dynamic output created with TeX. Not all previewers will be
able to display the dynamism in this document, e.g. Preview.app on Mac OS X
cannot handle it. But Acrobat can. Open it, set it to Full Screen and hit
return a couple of times.
Submitted by <strong>Stephan Lehmke</strong>. He writes: a bit of finite
automata simulation done with PSTricks (automata package).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="macqtexDemo.pdf"><img src="macqtexDemo.jpg" alt="macqtexDemo.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>This example does not work in all PDF-viewers (especially Mac OS X Preview.app
does not handle this). Use Acrobat. Submitter <strong>Frances Griffin</strong>
writes:
<p>This is an example of the mathematics quizzes we are using at Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia. It uses JavaScript inside a PDF document, so
that the questions are automatically marked, and on completion of the quiz,
the correct answers and fully worked solutions become visible.
<p>We have set up an automated system which generates random parameters for
the questions, pdfTeXs the quiz and serves a unique and personalised
version of it to the student. The demo quiz here is fully self contained,
but the quizzes we use for the students send the scores back to our server
to be recorded.
<p>It is based on DP Story's exerquiz package, along with some customizations
we have made, and pdfscreen. There are more like this <a
href="http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~macqtex">here</a>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="LorenzAttractor.pdf"><img src="LorenzAttractor.jpg" alt="LorenzAttractor.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="LorenzAttractor.tex">LorenzAttractor.tex</a> </td><td>This example does not work in all readers (e.g. it does not work in Mac OS X
10.2's Preview.app), but it works in Acrobat. Click on the picture and see it
rotate.
<p>Submitted by <strong>Jochen Skupin</strong>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="Laurana.pdf"><img src="Laurana.jpg" alt="Laurana.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Laurana_tex.zip">Laurana_tex.zip</a> </td><td><p>Embedding 3D objects in LaTeX. Note: does not display in Safari. Does
display in Adobe Acrobat
<p><strong>Paolo Cignoni</strong> writes:
<p>We have developed <a href="http://meshlab.sourceforge.net">MeshLab</a>, an
open source tool that can be used to convert 3D object in a format that is
directly embeddable into a pdf through the movie15 latex package.
<p>Attached a pdf produced with the above tools and a zip with the latex
sources for re-creating it
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="calvec.pdf"><img src="calvec.jpg" alt="calvec.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="calvec.tex">calvec.tex</a> </td><td>As for most dynamics, the workings depend on your viewer.
<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando C.Rodr&iacute;guez</strong> writes:
<p>This is another submission, which combines the hyperref and the insdljs
packages, to create an interactive document that performs simple vector
calculus operations.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="tabela_periodica.pdf"><img src="tabela_periodica.jpg" alt="tabela_periodica.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tabela_periodica.tex">tabela_periodica.tex</a> </td><td>A dynamic periodic table in Portuguese. Click an entry to get extra
information. As with many dynamic examples, it depends on your viewer if this
works (Safari does not work).
<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando C.Rodr&iacute;guez</strong> writes:
<p>I'm sending you an interactive periodic table written in portuguese, using
LaTeX with the color and hyperref packages.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=languages>Languages of the world</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="tengwar.pdf"><img src="tengwar.jpg" alt="tengwar.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tengwar.tex">tengwar.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Ignacio Fern&aacute;ndez Galv&aacute;n</strong> writes:
<p>Tengwar is an alphabet invented by the J.R.R. Tolkien, which he used for
representing fictional languages in his novel The Lord of the Rings and
related works. There are many fonts freely available for this beautiful
script, and I've created a package (tengwarscript, available at CTAN) which
makes it easy to access some of these fonts in a standard way. This sample
shows three short texts composed with different fonts and the tengwarscript
package
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="tibetan.pdf"><img src="tibetan.jpg" alt="tibetan.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="tibetan.tex">tibetan.tex</a> </td><td>A piece of Tibetan text which describes the Story of a Brahman and
his family.
<p>Submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining<strong>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="hindi.pdf"><img src="hindi.jpg" alt="hindi.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="hindi.dn">hindi.dn</a> </td><td>An example of Hindi, from the devnag package of Velthuis. Submitted by
<strong>Norbert Preining</strong>.
<p> This is an example of how well TeX can be adapted to all different
languages. I do not know what it says here, so do not hold me responsible.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="arabic.pdf"><img src="arabic.jpg" alt="arabic.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="arabic.tex">arabic.tex</a> </td><td>An excerpt from Multilingual Typesetting with OMEGA, a Case Study: Arabic, by
Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice. These are the last three pages from the
well known torture.tex file. (This is done with Omega, the extension of TeX to
Unicode). Submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining</strong>.
<p><p> This is an example of how well TeX can be adapted to all different
languages, even typesetting from right to left. I do not know what it says
here, so do not hold me responsible.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="esther-ch2.pdf"><img src="esther-ch2.jpg" alt="esther-ch2.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="esther-ch2.tex">esther-ch2.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Art Werschulz</strong> writes:
<p>Alan Hoenig <ahoenig@suffolk.lib.ny.us> has recently released version 2 of his
Makor system. Makor is a system for high-quality Hebrew typesetting, which
runs under Omega.
<p>As an experiment, I typeset the second chapter of the book of Esther from the
Hebrew Bible. This essentially involved downloading the BHS (Biblia Hebraica
Stuttgartensia) version of Esther from the web, changing all instances of ~ to
@, adding a few lines of boilerplate to the top and the bottom of the file,
and running it through omega. BTW, I'm running MacOS X 10.2.4 on an 800MHz G4
iMac, along with your latest i-Installer distribution of the TeX stuff.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="chinese.pdf"><img src="chinese.jpg" alt="chinese.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="chinese.tex">chinese.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Martin Jansche</strong> writes:
<p>I'm attaching two files that use the CJK package to
typeset Chinese. Note that you don't see anything like
\includepackage{CJK} in the LaTeX source, since it has to first be
exported in cjk-encoding by Emacs, at which point the appropriate
commands are inserted. The process is described in the file. The
tight integration of CJK and Emacs makes it especially easy to mix and
match different scripts and/or character sets.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=graphics>Graphics</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="maps.pdf"><img src="maps.jpg" alt="maps.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="maps.tex">maps.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Jonathan Guyer</strong> writes:
<p>This is a set of maps that I made for the frontispiece of a bound volume of
my mother's journals that she wrote during a sailing trip in the Greek
islands. My fianc&eacute;e and I put the whole thing together for a Christmas
present last year. Key ingredients are WARMreader for the route labeling and
babel for the place names.
<p>There are some errors in the route [probably doesn't matter to you 8^) ] and
there's a lot of extraneous stuff in the preamble because it was cut and
pasted from the manuscript. Further, I don't know squat about Greek, so I
undoubtedly made errors in some of the labels.
<p>The map was produced in IGOR Pro from coastal data I found someplace online
(I don't remember where offhand). I supposed If I'd been truly masochistic,
I would have used XYpic to produce the whole thing...
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="lee-wilczynski.pdf"><img src="lee-wilczynski.jpg" alt="lee-wilczynski.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="lee-wilczynski.tex">lee-wilczynski.tex</a> </td><td>A piece of math and pictures submitted by <strong>Dariusz Wilczynski</strong>. He writes:
<p>I'm sending you a one-page excerpt from a paper of mine that was published
in the American Journal of Mathematics. Hope you will find it useful. I'm sure
Ross Moore and others can provide more interesting examples of the power of
Xy-pic.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="cover.pdf"><img src="cover.jpg" alt="cover.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="cover.tex">cover.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Plamen Tanovski</strong> writes:
<p>my contribution is actually nothing special in the world of TeX. I've
used the cd-cover class and the tiling macros from PSTricks to produce
nice looking enclosure for my sample cd. The idea for the cover is
based upon a title page by Imre Reiner.
<p>The interesting point, I think, is the use of ornaments. Ornaments
have accompanied the letters through the whole history of the book.
Being once *the* typographer's adornment for centuries, ornaments are
nowadays -- where books are made by graphic designers -- almost
forgotten and replaced with blurred meaningless color spots (quoting
the german typographer H.P. Willberg: "visuelles Hintergrundrauschen"
[visual background hissing]); maybe because it's not easy to make
patterns and borders by clicking around with the mouse.
<p>So I think it is a great chance for TeX to bring back ornaments in the
books. There are enough tools to do that in TeX/PostScript/MetaPost
etc. and fortunately there are still many ornamental fonts available.
<p> P.S. I know, there are some articles on tiling with TeX, but they are most
technically oriented. Mine is a real life example.
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<tr><td><a href="BarnstormingBitter.pdf"><img src="BarnstormingBitter.jpg" alt="BarnstormingBitter.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="BarnstormingBitter.tex">BarnstormingBitter.tex</a> </td><td>A Beer bottle label created with TeX. I could use a bottle right now...
<p>Submitter <strong>Kester Clegg</strong> writes:
<p>The labels are designed to be cut out and put round the neck of beer
bottles (my home brews as it happens!). One thing I like about using
latex instead of a normal graphics program is that I get minute control,
I can work on a single label for speed, and when I'm finished, I
uncomment my 'block' of labels and bingo! I get the whole lot at once!
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<tr><td><a href="kanji-sheet.pdf"><img src="kanji-sheet.jpg" alt="kanji-sheet.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="kanji-sheet.tex">kanji-sheet.tex</a> </td><td><p>Kanji characters, slowly fading out to help you practice. This has been
created with ConTeXt and Metapost.
<p><strong>Christopher Creutzig</strong> writes:
<p>I needed some practice sheets for my Japanese handwriting and cooked up
these files.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.pdf"><img src="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.jpg" alt="cubs_v_cards_8sep98.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="scorecard.mp">scorecard.mp</a> <a href="scored_game.tex">scored_game.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Christopher Swingley</strong> writes:
<p>This is a Metapost program and wrapper TeX document that generates a
baseball scorecard, as well as demonstrates the scoring from the game
where Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris' season home run record in 1998.
The Metapost code includes a variety of locations, paths, and functions
to make it easy to generate nice-looking baseball scorecards with or
without the scoring.</p>
<p>I've included the Metapost source, as well as the wrapper file I use to
produce PDF versions for printing on letter sized paper.</p>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="diagram.pdf"><img src="diagram.jpg" alt="diagram.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="diagram.tex">diagram.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Bob Tennent</strong> writes:
<p>Hi. I thought this might be of interest, primarily because it shows what
can be done *without* WYSYWYG tools. The source consists of just 148
lines of LaTeX and uses John Reynolds's fine macros package for diagrams
(diagmac). The diagram was designed to be viewed on the web.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="cave.pdf"><img src="cave.jpg" alt="cave.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td><strong>Martin Budaj</strong> writes:
<p>This contribution is a little bit unusual. It is a cave map produced by
Therion, free cave mapping software. It uses MetaPost for drawing of map
symbols such as passage walls or lakes, and pdfTeX for all the typesetting.
It demonstrates the incredible flexibility of TeX and MetaPost.
<p>I hope it will be interesting, although there is no source code included.
(Therion uses its own input language; MetaPost and TeX files are generated at
the run-time.)
<p>The Therion homepage is on the <a
href=http://therion.speleo.sk>http://therion.speleo.sk</a>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="program_sample.pdf"><img src="program_sample.jpg" alt="program_sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="program_sample.tex">program_sample.tex</a> </td><td><p>Note: the file is 5.8MB
<p><strong>Christopher Creutzig</strong> writes:
<p>It shows a Metapost-generated background, XeTeX-set text, everything combined
with ConTeXt using pdfTeX. I've used Acrobat to extract only a part of the
whole file, mostly because the complete thing makes sense only if you cut and
fold it the right way
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="poster.pdf"><img src="poster.jpg" alt="poster.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="poster.tex">poster.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Jonny Butler</strong> writes:
<p>It's a poster I made for presenting at a linguistics conference. I was
wary about trying to do something like this with LaTeX at my level,
but I was astonished at how easy it turned out to be (even though it
is in places a bit of a hack...)
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="ps_s_1b.pdf"><img src="ps_s_1b.jpg" alt="ps_s_1b.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ps_s_1b.tex">ps_s_1b.tex</a> </td><td>A physics problem sheet with pictures created with pstricks.
<p>Submitted by <strong>Christopher Allen</strong>.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=text>General Typesetting</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="winawer.pdf"><img src="winawer.jpg" alt="winawer.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="Blatny-Klinger.tex">Blatny-Klinger.tex</a> <a href="Blatny-Klinger-readme1st.txt">Blatny-Klinger-readme1st.txt</a> </td><td>Note, this impressive example is 1.1MB in size.
<p>Submitter <strong>Ulrich Dirr</strong> writes:
<p>Here are a few pages of 352 from a chess book (Kindermann/Dirr:
Franz&ouml;sisch Winawer, Band 1: 7. Dg4 0--0). Typesetting was done by
PDFLaTeX (then v0.14h). Printed on art paper using a two colour setup (black
and a spot color), the book was published in 2001 by Chessgate AG.
<p>The interested TeXie will recognize the creation and utilization of special
fonts (Adobe Jenson (with special ligatures and kerning for german), ITC
Legacy Sans, Castellar (initials), and self-made chess fonts for figurine
notation and diagrams )
<p>I've downsampled the images to 96dpi. Otherwise the file would have been
3.2MB.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="leaflet.pdf"><img src="leaflet.jpg" alt="leaflet.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>I think you need to zoom in or print this document if you really want to see
how nice it is. And remember its advice: you need at least a 66MHz processor
and 32MB memory for TeX!
<p>Submitter <strong>Karl Berry</strong> writes:
<p>Peter Flynn's LaTeX brochure is pretty amazing, IMHO.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="0309Newsletter.pdf"><img src="0309Newsletter.jpg" alt="0309Newsletter.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="0309Newsletter.tex">0309Newsletter.tex</a> </td><td><strong>Bob Kerstetter</strong> writes:
<p>Here are the source files and PDF output for a monthly newsletter. There
may be better ways to do this, but it works okay and Alt-N is happy with it.
<p>Some of the word spacing in the narrow columns is a too large. I reduced it
from terrible to livable by rewriting and doing copy fitting. The newsletter
makes extensrive use of minipage and has lot of links. I would not call it
interactive, however. It's more of a practical way to communicate with our
distributors and resellers.
<p>It is not pretty like lots of things on the showcase, but it does show a
practical way of using LaTeX for a newsletter. It is certainly easier for me
to do this than with a page layout program where all of your content is
trapped inside the document.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="sosl70c.screen.pdf"><img src="sosl70c.screen.jpg" alt="sosl70c.screen.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="gradu-20070208-1328-src.zip">gradu-20070208-1328-src.zip</a> <a href="sosl70c.print.pdf">sosl70c.print.pdf</a> </td><td><p>How to make two different types of output from one source with LaTeX. This is
something that for instance ConTeXt has been built for, but it is possible
in LaTeX as well. Click the image for the screen version. Click the link in the
box to the left of this text for the print version. Enjoy reading it (if you can read Finnish, that is).
<strong>Juhapekka Tolvanen</strong> writes:
<p>This Master's Thesis has no math at all. This is my Master's Thesis for
sociology. I am Master of Social Science now. Language is Finnish.
<p>There is not very clever LaTeX-trickery, but it is really big cavalcade
of LaTeX-packages. I was able to create two different layouts from same
LaTeX-source. I learned very much LaTeX in that process when I wrote my
Master' Thesis. Sources are available under the DSL (Design Science
License). Yes, my Master's Thesis is free in the sense of freedom and
price!
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="learning_early.pdf"><img src="learning_early.jpg" alt="learning_early.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="learning_early.tex">learning_early.tex</a> </td><td><p>This is a nice screen-oriented document. Note: this document is 2.4MB in
size.</p>
<p><strong>Ant&oacute;nio Almeida</strong> writes:</p>
<p>I submit here a document that I wrote using pdfLaTeX with some
packages. It has the peculiar characteristic of being written with
easy to get fonts, besides the CM family and the 35 standard fonts
Adobe.</p>
<p>This is a document that introduces Early Music to all audiences. It
can be found in <a href=http://perusio.com>http://perusio.com</a></p>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="csky-sample.pdf"><img src="csky-sample.jpg" alt="csky-sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="csky-sample.tex">csky-sample.tex</a> </td><td>Another fine typesetting example, which shows marginal notes and graphics. It
is created with the ConTeXt package. Submitted by <strong>Bill
McClain</strong>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="6553-sample.pdf"><img src="6553-sample.jpg" alt="6553-sample.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="6553-specs.pdf">6553-specs.pdf</a> </td><td>Sometimes the most beautifully typeset non-mathematical books are actually made
with TeX.
<p>Submitter <strong>Larry Tseng</strong> writes:
<p>[This is] an example of what TeX can do, when used by people who make their
living setting type to implement the type specifications and layout of a
distinguished book designer.
<p>The book is <i>Exiles from a Future Time</i> by Alan M. Wald, University of North
Carolina Press. The design is by Richard Eckersley, whose achievements in book
design have earned him the designation of <a
href="http://www.rsa-design.net/rdi/royaldesigners/"> Royal Designer for
Industry by the Royal Society of Arts</a>. His work is also in several museum
collections, including the <a href="http://ndm.si.edu/">Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute</a>.
<p>The sample is in the form of double-page spreads, intended to be viewed with
Acrobat version 5 and above. Acrobat's full-screen mode with text-smoothing
are recommended for best results. Some restrictions have been placed on the
pdf content to discourage printing and extraction.
<p>Included also are the type specifications in a <a href="6553-specs.pdf">
separate pdf</a> -- perhaps a much more interesting alternative to style files
and other sources given that the book was set with Buffalo TeX, an in-house
package that has its own special control sequences and syntax.
<p>For people who would like to see more of this sort of thing, we've set up a
kind of "extension to the official TeX showcase" to show the work of other
book designers that we have worked with in the past, all typeset with TeX
of course. Simply log on to the showbooks page at <a
href="http://www.tsengbooks.com">http://www.tsengbooks.com/</a>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="peace_on_earth.pdf"><img src="peace_on_earth.jpg" alt="peace_on_earth.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>Look at this example and especially, zoom in to the text. Submitter
<strong>William Adams</strong> writes:
<p>It is a small French gatefold card which one can print to fit any decent size
paper and then fold in half twice to get a card.
<p>It is typeset in Zapfino using Omega and techniques which I hope to document
and present presently.
<p>I hope everyone will enjoy it in the spirit in which it is offered.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="ShowcaseCircular.pdf"><img src="ShowcaseCircular.jpg" alt="ShowcaseCircular.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ShowcaseCircular.tex">ShowcaseCircular.tex</a> </td><td>This example shows TeX's power to set in strange paragraph shapes. TeX has
been told the shape, but for the rest TeX just does its normal job, breaking
lines into words and paragraphs into lines.
Submitted by <strong>Dariusz Wilczynski</strong>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="ubuntu_font_study.pdf"><img src="ubuntu_font_study.jpg" alt="ubuntu_font_study.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="ubuntu_font_study.tex">ubuntu_font_study.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Istv&aacute;n Sz&aacute;ntai</strong> writes:
<p>Yesterday I was playing with the Ubuntu Font Family with LaTeX, and I came up with a pretty neat layout.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="partofTheBookofTea.pdf"><img src="partofTheBookofTea.jpg" alt="partofTheBookofTea.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>Typography from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kazuko, submitted by
<strong>William Adams</strong>
<p>The complete book (including the graphics shown in the icon) can be
downloaded <a
href="http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/typography/thebookoftea.pdf">here</a>
(2.7MB)
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="pp.pdf"><img src="pp.jpg" alt="pp.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="pp.tex">pp.tex</a> </td><td>Another fine typesetting example showing how well TeX can produce beautiful
books. It is created with the ConTeXt package. Submitted by <strong>Bill
McClain</strong>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="diminuendo.pdf"><img src="diminuendo.jpg" alt="diminuendo.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="diminuendo.tex">diminuendo.tex</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Peter Hammond</strong> writes:
<p>This is some rather old trickery, using Plain TeX and a readily resizable
Postscript font, based on the \length macro example on p. 219 of the TeXbook.
The result would be the complete decimal expansion of some prominent rational,
irrational and transcendental numbers, in a finite area, except that of course
the digits become too small to see (or print) rather fast. (Some of it appears
within the cover design for our textbook, Essential Mathematics for Economic
Analysis.)
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="texshade-eg.pdf"><img src="texshade-eg.jpg" alt="texshade-eg.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="texshade-eg.tex">texshade-eg.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Senthil Kumar Murugapiran</strong> writes:
<p>I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at Ajou University, South Korea. I would like to submit two examples
that highlight the use of LaTeX packages: TeXshade and TeXtopo.
Inclusion of these submissions in the TeX showcase might be helpful
for biologists to venture into learning LaTeX, once they understand
what they can do with this wonderful software.
I made these figures for an article that was published in <a
href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-4/senthil/">The PracTeX Journal</a>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="textopo-eg.pdf"><img src="textopo-eg.jpg" alt="textopo-eg.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="textopo-eg.tex">textopo-eg.tex</a> </td><td><p><strong>Senthil Kumar Murugapiran</strong> writes:
<p>I work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at Ajou University, South Korea. I would like to submit two examples
that highlight the use of LaTeX packages: TeXshade and TeXtopo.
Inclusion of these submissions in the TeX showcase might be helpful
for biologists to venture into learning LaTeX, once they understand
what they can do with this wonderful software.
I made these figures for an article that was published in <a
href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-4/senthil/">The PracTeX Journal</a>.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="onetype.pdf"><img src="onetype.jpg" alt="onetype.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="onetype.tex">onetype.tex</a> </td><td>A treatise on a typeface by font-specialist <strong>William Adams</strong>.
<p>It's designed to be printed all on a letter-sized sheet of paper and folded
into a small booklet.
</td></tr>
</table>
<h3><a name=misc>Miscellanous</a></h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="4">
<tr><th>Case (click for document)</th><th>Source</th><th>What it is</th></tr>
<tr><td><a href="terra.pdf"><img src="terra.jpg" alt="terra.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="terra.zip">terra.zip</a> </td><td>Note: won't display in Mac OS X Preview up to OS X Lion. Acrobat on Mac OS
X displays this properly.
<p>Submitter <strong>Orlando Rodriguez</strong> writes:
<p>The following contribution contains a Beamer presentation, containing a spinning globe. It combines POVray with SWFTools, pdfTeX, Beamer and (hacked)flashmovie.
The earth texture is rather large, so it's not included, but a suitable substitute can be found in the web.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="uke.pdf"><img src="uke.jpg" alt="uke.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="uke.tar.bz2">uke.tar.bz2</a> </td><td><p>Submitter <strong>Mark G.</strong> writes:
<p>In order to play songs on the ukulele, I devised a set of macros
in (plain) TeX and typeset a few songbooks that show lyrics and chords
(and sometimes tablatures).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="en_gb_eclipse_114.pdf"><img src="en_gb_eclipse_114.jpg" alt="en_gb_eclipse_114.pdf"></a></td><td>No source available</td><td>An example of a catalog entry automatically created from a vendor's database.
Submitted by <strong>Stephan Lehmke</strong>. He writes:
<p>I've attached another PDF which doesn't really have a TeX source because
it's automatically generated from data, but I find the application itself
quite excellent. You can find it among around 800 siblings at www.erco.com
(for instance /download/data/_lsp/indoor/system/fr/fr_pollux_119.pdf).
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="kv315f.pdf"><img src="kv315f.jpg" alt="kv315f.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="kv315f.tex">kv315f.tex</a> </td><td>A Music example submitted by <strong>Norbert Preining</strong>. This is from
the Andante KV 315, W.A. Mozart, transcription from D. Taupin
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="x.mpg"><img src="x.jpg" alt="x.mpg"></a></td><td> <a href="x.README">x.README</a> <a href="x.makemovie">x.makemovie</a> <a href="x.mp">x.mp</a> <a href="x.param">x.param</a> </td><td>Note, this file is 1MB in size.
<p>This example is a funny MPEG movie, created with METAPOST, which is part of
the TeX family of programs. It has been submitted by <strong>Hartmut
Henkel</strong>. He writes:
<p>I have created a small technical movie (premiere) about a
certain species of liquid Indium ion emitter (Liquid Indium Metal
Source, LIMS), which sometimes is used in space for propulsion or
scientific experiments (e.g. by the company www.vh-s.de where I work).
<p>The movie shows the heating of the Indium reservoir until the Indium
melts. Forced by a strong electrical field (not shown) the Indium creeps
to the tip of a Tungsten needle and builds a so-called Taylor cone
there. From the tip of the cone Indium ions are extracted by the same
field. --- After some operational time the In reservoir gets empty.
Don't take this part too serious :-)
<p>It's some 600 frames, drawn by MetaPost one by one,
printed, put sheet by sheet on the scanner. Just kidding, it goes
through a shell script (under debian Linux) starting with MetaPost,
blows up to over 1GByte of .ppm files by ghostscript and then shrinks to
the mpeg by mpeg_encode.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="LM-Volume-manuscript.pdf"><img src="LM-Volume-manuscript.jpg" alt="LM-Volume-manuscript.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="LM-Volume-manuscript.tex">LM-Volume-manuscript.tex</a> </td><td>An example of creating documents with hyperlinks (internal and external) using
the <em>hyperref</em> package.
<strong>Claus Gerhardt</strong> writes:
<p>I am not sure if this paper qualifies as a TeX showcase example, since
nowadays everybody who is writing mathematical papers is using TeX, and these
people need not to be convinced, but it might be a showcase for the beauty of
hyperref.
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.pdf"><img src="EulerGibbsDuhem.jpg" alt="EulerGibbsDuhem.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.tex">EulerGibbsDuhem.tex</a> <a href="EulerGibbsDuhem.html">EulerGibbsDuhem.html</a> </td><td><p>This example is just an ordinary article with some math in it. However,
using the <em>htlatex</em> tool from the TeX4ht suite, the same TeX source has
been used to produce the PDF file you see when you click the icon as well as
the web page you see when you click on the EulerGibbsDuhem.html link in the
second column.
<p>Submitted by <strong>Stephen Addison</strong>
</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="johnhigexerpt.pdf"><img src="johnhigexerpt.jpg" alt="johnhigexerpt.pdf"></a></td><td> <a href="johnhigexerpt.txt">johnhigexerpt.txt</a> </td><td>Submitter <strong>Scott Higinbotham</strong> writes:
<p>Here is a contribution to your TeX showcase, if it seems appropriate.
I do genealogy as a hobby, and I have kept the results of my work in
book format almost from the beginning. I used Word for the Mac
originally, but maintaining the document through the constant updates
resulting from new information was not easy. I wanted something a
little more automatic. This was accomplished using a database (4D) to
keep the basic information (names, dates, and family groupings),
individual text files for the narratives about each individual, and
then having the database generate a LaTeX file, which TeX would
process and put together in book form, generating a TOC and an index
in the usual manner.
<p>There is not much fancy TeX code involved, but the result seems to
impress even experienced amateurs who have looked at it. It seemed to
me that this might be interesing because it is an application which is
a bit far afield from the usual disciplines where TeX has taken hold.
<p>The example is anexcerpt from the genealogy.
</td></tr>
</table>
<p>This showcase does not have very fancy markup. It is created automatically
by a <a href="createshowcase">perl script</a> and a <a href="sections">driver
file</a> and I am not an HTML-expert, that is why.</p>
<p>If you want to contribute something that is not already there, or which is
better than what is already there, please send me a submission by e-mail. Do
not send me URLs or anything that requires work for me to find it or download
it, I must set a limit somewhere and I will generally not include items I have
to go browsing for. Sorry.
<p>Include the case and make sure it looks good on screen as well as in print
(so no bitmap fonts), and if possible some source and a description. If you
want, add a JPG or TIFF of 150x200 (width x length) pixels just like the icons
above. Preferably, keep your names in sync: foo.pdf for the showcase entry
with foo.jpg for the icon. Include source. It does not need to be complete in
that it can be compiled and that all necessary support files are there, but it
should illustrate how it was done in TeX (or MetaPost or whatever).
<p>E-mail your submissions to tex-showcase at rna.nl.
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