A reminder that today's class will be held in the Educational Cluster Lab (Green Center 297). Please make sure that your accounts on the massive cluster are working.
We will start today's class by making sure that you can access your PPL and NCSA accounts. Also, take some time to access the NCSA home page and their Power Challenge User's Guide.
Since most of you seem to be comfortable with Unix and ftp, etc.we will have a very abbreviated discussion on these matters. Feel free to access the following links for appropriate tutorials though:
We have two text editors available to you on our machines: emacs and vi. Of the two, emacs is a more powerful editor. Both editors have excellent tutorials available online (for emacs, bring up emacs-the path is /opt/gnu/bin/emacs on the PPL machines-and type ^h ^h t to start the tutorial). In addition, the CU HPSC project has a tutorial on vi.
The CU HPSC project also has a tutorial on the Unix utility make. You should try and use make whenever possible to maintain large software systems.
We will follow some of these tutorials in class today.
In addition, we will learn the basic rules about using to
generate documents.
A brief ascii document to get you going on writing documents in latex on the PPL machines can be retrieved from here.
You can get the text of the template file in the above example by an anonymous ftp from kafanchan.
A long PostScript document on how to use latex in the Rutgers University environment can be found by following this link.
The above documents do not talk about the html aspects of designing a hypertext document. For that we need to go through the latex2html manual. To use latex2html, you must have /opt/bin/latex2html in your path, and you should run your .tex file through latex before you run it through latex2html.
In today's class we will spend time in the lab going through these documents, and running latex and latex2html on the example template file.