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To use a floppy or CD-ROM, do the following:

1. Place the floppy disk in the floppy disk drive or CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.
2. An icon of a floppy disk or CD-ROM should appear. Click the disk drive icon on the KDE or GNOME desktop to access the...

The web browser may be configured to open a pdf file within the web browser. Adobe Acrobat may open within the browser window. If this happens, then the Adobe menu items will appears beneath the browser menu items. (See picture below):



To print...

http://www.ias.edu/math/services/computing/TeX

The microphone on the webcam attached to your system will usually work better than the headset microphone. To configure skype to use the webcam, go to Skype Options and select USB device under Sound-In.

Or watch this video which shows you how to...

Note: Please also see FAQ https://www.ias.edu/math/computing/faq/sync-dropbox-folder

You can access dropbox from the Applications->Internet menu or by typing dropbox from a command prompt. The first time you run it, you should do dropbox install -i...

You can view the past seminars, lectures and workshops on: https://www.ias.edu/video/

• Set up Kile to tell LaTeX to add source info, i.e., set LaTeX build tools from Default to Modern: Settings -> Configure kile -> Build -> LaTeX -> "Modern" in the dropdown menu Click ForwardDVI in the list Select Embedded Viewer configuration...

In order to use synctex, you need to load the module for texlive 2012. Our workstation build uses TL2007 by default.

In order to utilize it, type the following on a command line (or your login script):

module load texlive

If you type module...

You need to make sure the texlive packages are at the top of the path list.

Go to Edit->Preferences->Typesetting Under Paths for TeX and related programs, make sure that /usr/ias/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux is listed at the top. If this is not...

Create a folder in your root directory called texmf. Then create the directories inside it: tex/latex. You can do it all with one command:

mkdir -p texmf/tex/latex.

Inside the latex directory, you can put your files (.tex, .sty, etc.) or
local...