There are various problems associated with Adobe's PDF plugin for browsers (nppdf.so). Benign problems are the inability to print or produce printable Postscript files. More serious problems are crashing or an unwillingness to deal with different document versions.

xpdf is generally more robust. If you are on a UNIX/linux system then in $(HOME)/.mailcap, include a line with
 

The advantage of this approach is the 'xpdf' is the viewer for all browsers (firefox, mozilla, lynx etc) and email software (mutt, pine, thunderbird etc).

If you are using a different environment, then to configure firefox to use xpdf instead of the Acrobat plugin,

1. Let Firefox show you plugins:
   • Type "about:config" in the URL window.
   • Look for the browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions option.
   • Right-click over true and toggle this value to false.
2. Disable plugin and use xpdf instead:
   • Go to the Edit / Preferences / Downloads / View and Edit Actions menu.
   • Double-click the application/pdf file type.
   • A window will pop up asking how to handle PDF files: select Open them with this application.
   • Another file chooser window will pop up: enter /usr/local/bin/xpdf into the filename field, then click Open.
   • This will bring you back to the previous window: press OK here.
   • This will bring you back to first menu: click Close here.
3. You are done: test by going to a clicking onto a PDF link.

• For math symbols in the running text, you can use bm{} command.

  Example:

  ...$bm{y_{ij}}$ is the response... The bm macro is different from the mathbf command in that it emboldens everything including symbols.
• For math symbols in the equation or eqnarray environment, use a pair of environments: begin{boldequation} formula end{boldequation} begin{boldequation*} formula end{boldequation*} The unstarred form has automatic referencing and is numbered, while the starred form has no automatic referencing and numbering.

LaTeX2e Information

OnLine Documentation About:

• LaTeX2e Local Guide
• Additional LaTeX2e Documents

(in PostScript):

• UBC Statistics Dissertation Document Class
• LaTeX2e WWW links

UBC Thesis Style Format

• Located under /opt/texmf/bin/Thesis
• Just copy the 4 files in that directory

(and fill in the blanks!!)

• Carefully read the thesis.tex file

LaTeX2e Local Guide

• local.ps (a local guide to use of LaTeX2e on the departmental research network)

​Additional LaTeX documentation in .ps format

• Introduction to LaTeX2e
  • essential.ps: a short introduction to the most important commands
  • usrguide.ps: overview on the new commands relative to LaTeX 2.09
• Graphics
  • grfguide.ps: macros for including postscript images, color and much more. This file is created by running LaTeX on grfguide.tex and dvips grfguide.

• Tools
  • afterpage.ps: causes the commands specified in its argument to be expanded after the current page is output.
  • array.ps: A new implementation of LaTex's tabular and array environment.
  • dcolumn.ps: This package defines a system for defining column of entries in an array or tablular which are to be aligned on a ``decimal point''.
  • delarry.ps: implicits \left \right pairs.
  • enumerate.ps: gives the enumerate environment an optional argrument which determines the style in which the counter is printed.
  • fileerr.ps: deal with ``File not found error''.
  • ftnright.ps: Footnotes in a multi-column layout.
  • hhline.ps: produces a line like \hline, or a double line like\hline\hline except for its interaction with vertical lines.
  • indentfirst.ps: makes the first line of all sections ec, be indented by the usual paragraph indentation.
  • layout.ps: displays page layout variables.
  • longtable.ps: defines the longtable environment, a multi-page version of tabular.
  • multicol.ps: improved typesetting in several columns
  • rawfonts.ps: provides emulation of LaTex 2.09 documents which used low-level commands such as \tenrm.
  • showkeys.ps: displays the internal labels with \ref, \cite etc.
  • somedefs.ps: allows package writers to provide options which switch definitions on and off.
  • tabularx.ps: a new environment which takes the same argument as tabular, but modifies the width of certain columns, rather than the inter column space, to set a table with the requested total width.
  • theorem.ps: an extension of the LaTex theorem environment.
  • varioref.ps: similar to \ref but adds an additional page references, like `` on the facing page'' or ``on page 27'' whenever the corresponding \lable is not on the same page.
  • verbatim.ps: reimplements the LaTeX verbatim and verbatim* environments.
  • xr.ps: implements a system for external references.
  • xspace.ps: saves the user from having to type \ or {} after most occurrences of a macro name in text.

• Advanced topics
  • clsguide.ps: LaTeX2e for class and package writers
  • fntguide.ps: the New Font Selection Scheme for class and package writers
  • cfgguide.ps: configuration options for LaTeX2e

UBC Statistics Dissertation Document Classes

• Documentation
  • ubc-example_m.ps: as a sample dissertation; has been obtained by running LaTeX on ubc-example_m.tex
• Source Code
  • ubc-example_m.tex: source code for the sample Master Degree dissertation
  • ubc-example_p.tex: source code for the sample PhD Degree dissertation
• Some useful WWW links:
  • LaTeX2e command reference (the University of Pennsylvania)
  • Cambridge University TeX related documentation
  • UK TeX Users Group with TeX and (in particular) LaTeX FAQs
  • TeX page from the UPenn Math Department
  • LaTeX bugs database
  • LaTeX Reference

A1) Method 1:
      a) first include "usepackage{fancybox}"
      b) then use
           slideframe{shadow} or
           slideframe{double} or
           slideframe{oval} or
           slideframe{Oval}
         to change frame style or use
           slideframe{none}
         to create slides without frame
     note: put these commands in the preamble will cause all slides have 
the same frame unless you use another slideframe command to change it.
The above commands can be used within any begin{slide}...end{slide}.

  Method 2:
    a) first include "usepackage{semcolor}"
    b) then use
      slideframe{scplain} or
      slideframe{scshadow} or
      slideframe{scdouble} or
      slideframe{none}