Workin' It: Making PDFs, Slides, Posters, and Web pages
Making PDFs: The Portable Document Format (readable using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader) has become a standard for publishing read-only (mostly) documents.When I distribute things to my students, I use PDFs. It's easy to create PDF files instead of DVI files using pdflatex.If you are using WinEdt, there is a button on the toolbar called "pdfLaTeX". Click that instead of the button marked "LaTeX."
If you compile by typing commands, just type
pdflatex filename
instead of typing
latex filename
Note: Make sure you test the file to ensure it is viewable.
Making Slides: Making slides is diffrerent. The problem is that you don't have complete control over font size in the same easy way as with most software you're used to using. The solution is to use
\documentclass{slides}
instead of the normal article or amsart classes. I am not going to go through the rest of the details here, primarily since I've never used it. Look it up. A link that goes through lots of details is here.
Making Posters: An explanation is to be added. The necessary files can be downloaded here: landscape, portrait.
Making Web pages: If you've ever tried to express yourself mathematically in HTML, well, it's enough to make you want to cry. You can use LaTeX to create HTML pages; it's easy, and the solution is not too inelegant.
As with creating PDF files, you just compile using a different command:
latex2html sourcefile
This creates a directory with the same name as the source file (without the extension) that contains the HTML file and the graphics needed to render the equations and other stuff you can't do in HTML. Worth trying, but generally I publish my stuff as Acrobat PDFs.