Creating
Course Web sites: Cornell faculty wanting to create course
websites should look here if they need more space than the 5MB
allotted by CU People.
Wade's
HTML Tutorial: This tutorial makes it easy to get started
creating web pages by writing html.
Beginner's
Guide to HTML: Another good introduction; from the NCSA
(National Center for Supercomputing Applications).
W3C HTML Validator: Check
your web pages for errors and compliance with HTML standards.
HTML With Style:
Biweekly tutorials on making web-pages. Each tutorial contains
lots of interesting, opinionated details about the right and wrong
way to produce web pages.
Cool Text: This site helps you
create cool logos and buttons for your web site.
GNU Emacs (Text Editor)
NT
Emacs: Emacs for Windows. (Latest version: 21.2!)
AUC TeX: An
extensible package that supports writing and formatting TeX and
LaTeX files for most variants of GNU Emacs. A must have for LaTeX
and Emacs users.
Swapping
the Caps Lock and Ctrl keys: If you start to use emacs
regularly, your left pinky finger will start to hurt a lot if the
left Ctrl key is in the most lower-left position on your keyboard
(which is likely). In this case, you will want to map the Ctrl
function to the key marked Caps Lock and vice-versa. (It takes some
time getting used to it, but it's well worth it.) On Windows 2000
and NT4.0 I've had the most success with a Windows utility called swapcapslock.
For a quick swap of Caps Lock with the left Ctrl key on Windows
2000, copy the file kbdussw1.dll
to C:/WINNT/system32, then copy the executable file regsetup.exe to your C:/ drive (it's
important that there not be any blank spaces in the path (i.e. the
folder hierarchy) of regsetup.exe). Then from the Start->Run menu
run: C:\regsetup.exe swapped. Make sure that hot key
sequences for switching between keyboard layouts are disabled
on your computer (on the input locales tab in the Keyboard control
panel). Now, shutdown and restart! (Shift+Alt will toggle between
the different keyboard layouts.)
MiKTeX: A free distribution
of LaTeX and related packages for Windows users.
Ling-TeX
Homepage: For those interested in writing linguistics
papers in LaTeX (e.g. those who have use for tree-drawing,
continuously numbered examples, aligned translations), provides
very useful information, macros, links, and archives of the
ling-tex mailing list.
Bibliographies: Some (not at all comprehensive) bibliographies
I've written up in BibTeX format:
The
TeX Catalog Online: An alphabetized index of the CTAN TeX
Archive (in Boston, with links to all mirror sites -- pick the
closest to you).
How to draw circles of any size
or radius in latex documents: The picture environment elements
\circle and \circle* will only draw circles with a very limited
number of diameters, the maximum diameter allowed is fairly small
(<.75 inch). To draw circles of larger diameter, use the
command \cbezier (in either math mode or the picture environment)
available with the package bez123, obtainable from CTAN.
(How?)
fitch.sty: A
LaTeX style file I wrote that lets one draw somewhat OK-looking
Fitch-style natural deduction proofs in latex. The idea is to
produce proofs that look like those in Language, Proof and
Logic (Barwise and Etchemendy et. al).
Ghostscript and Ghostview
Ghostscript and
Ghostview (or GSview): This software lets you display and
print postscript (and PDF!) files. Available for Windows,
Unix, Linux, OS/2 and Macintosh.
Windows Utilities
Aladdin
Expander for Windows: This is free decompression software for
the PC. Decodes BinHex and MacBin (as well as many other types of
compressed files).
This page created and maintained by Delia Graff
URL:
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