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Assignment 5: Critique of Unix Tutorials, Using LaTeX

Description

Read through all of the Unix tutorials linked to on our Unix Tutorials page. Write a two-page, single-spaced, critique that briefly summarizes the contents of each and presents your evaluation on how useful each one is to a student like yourself who is learning to use Unix for the first time. Comment on the content, style of presentation, and ease of use for each. Conclude your critique by picking the two Unix tutorials that you believe would be most helpful.

Format your report using LaTeX. Include a centered title that looks like:

Critique of Unix Tutorials

Chuck Anderson
Assignment 5, NSCC 192
February 22, 2001

Use a main section heading for your critique of each tutorial.

Use a spell checker to check your spelling. Try this on our Unix systems: 

ispell assign5.tex
Don't forget to read the man page on the ispell command. By the way, you can run ispell from within emacs!

Brief Tutorial on Using Latex in the CS Department

The latex command is located in /usr/local/bin which should already be in your PATH environmental variable.

Here is a simple example of a latex file. 

\documentclass{article}

%Set margins and text width and height
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{-0.75in}
\setlength{\headheight}{12pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{42pt}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.5in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9in}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
{\Large\bf Title Here}\\
More title here
\end{center}

\section{First Section}

Stuff in first paragraph.

Second paragraph.

\section{Another Section}

More good stuff.

\subsection{First Subsection}

Something exciting here.

\section{Conclusion}

Good stuff was included in this critique.

\end{document}

If you copy and paste this text into a file and save it in assign5.tex, or download it from this link to assign5.tex, you can process it by first doing 

latex assign5
which creates some new files in your directory, including assign5.dvi, the device independent format of your formatted text. To convert this into postscript, do 
dvips -o assign5.ps assign5.dvi
Now, to see it on your screen, do 
gv assign5.ps
From that window you can print it, or you can print it from the command line by doing 
lp assign5.ps

You should see a window like this

You can look at the resulting postscript file by clicking on this link: assign5.ps.

What to Turn In

When you are happy with the output you get when you latex your assign5.tex file, dvips it, then use gv to see the resulting postscript, just e-mail to me your assign5.tex file.