LaTeX is ideal for producing e-documents: Batch
processing
large documents with complete flexibility in font and design
is possible.
Interactive PDF can make your document visually appealing and
easy to navigate.
Delights, Sample E-Document:
Click on image for sample PDF. Best viewed in full screen.
Try the navigation at the bottom of the page, and
the interactive contents and index. Double arrows at the
bottom of the page will advance forwards or back by 1 page;
numbers will take you to the page listed.
(You are welcome to save
this pdf to your own computer)
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Advantages of E-Publishing in PDF
- Distribution is free; Color is free; No limitations to design.
- Hyperlinking makes navigating the document faster and
easier; interactive PDF allows many features of HTML.
- Generating PDF with LaTeX allows building macros and structure
that can be reused throughout a multipage document, even one
thousands of pages long.
- e-Publishing with PDF instead of HTML has the advantage of
embedded fonts and graphics and a design that will be constant
across viewing platforms.
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E-Publishing in PDF generated by LaTeX
Can be automated to have internal and
external hyperlinks, active tabbing, using any design or color
combination that your designer might imagine.
In the examples
below, click on the image to see the
complete pdf document. We encourage you to experiment with the active
tabs and hyperlinks. |
Hyperlinking on every page:
Click on the image below to see an
e-journal featuring work by scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Technische Universität München, Germany. You'll find many active links.
Design and LaTeX implementation by TeXnology.
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Software Documentation:
Click on the image below to see
sample pages for Software Documentation, to format
2000 + pages of documentation for Cytel software.
Every section head lists and links the subsections found
in that section; Index has hyperlinked lettered guide;
page numbers for each part, listed at the bottom of the index page, is automated.
Design and LaTeX implementation by TeXnology.
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MIT Press e-Journal
DOI, Supplemental Material, and author email are hyperlinked;
citations are linked to references.
Design and implementation in LaTeX by TeXnology.
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Author Documentation for MIT Press Open Mind e-Journal
Active tabs in author documentation make it easy to find topic of
interest.
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Article of the Future
``The Article of the Future project is an ongoing initiative to
revolutionize the traditional format of the academic paper in regard
to three key elements: presentation, content and context. More than
150 researchers, editors and authors worked with Elsevier to redesign
the format...
The three guiding principles for the new article format are:
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Readability. Make the article the center of the design, with
typography that makes it easier to read from the screen.
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Discoverability. Present content and functionality at the right place on the screen and the right time in the user's workflow.
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Extensibility. Have a generic layout that can accommodate
subject-specific content enrichments without sacrificing
readability.
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From Designing the Article of the Future -- Elsevier,
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/designing-the-article-of-the-future
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Sample implementation of Article of the Future in PDF
Elsevier has many interesting and well-tested ideas designed to
be used in HTML. Many features can also
be implemented in PDF, as you can see in the example below.
Author names linked to addresses on title page;
tabs, and second level tabs; linking to references. More
interactive PDF functionality is possible.
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On-Line Report Generation
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On-line Report Generation in PDF
Each symbol will link to a report about the listed
stock.
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Automating hypertargets
A stock analyst asked for
set of macros to automate building an on-line report
to distribute to his clients.
The name and number of companies analyzed is determined
by his client who submits a request online.
The risk analysis
for each company will start on a titled new page.
The TeXnology macro generates a hypertarget
so that the client can link to it from the beginning of the
report.
Once the report is completed, the analyst's client can
download it and navigate to the report about the stock that he or she is
particularly interested in by clicking on the stock symbol link.
This system allows rapid updating of the analysis, and rapid
distribution to the client.
For a more technical description see
http://www.texnology.com/talk2.pdf
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Macro Writing
