Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:50:00 +0800
Reply-To: Murphy Choy <goladin@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Murphy Choy <goladin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Thursday Theory
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I have always been using Ron's Latex files to get my papers up in shape.
Fast, easy and conform to the standards.
Regards,
Murphy Choy
The Unofficial SAS Gardener
Let the truth pave the land we tread.
-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:45 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Thursday Theory
As always, we have a sas wiki page on TeX
and Lamport's TeX macros == LaTeX:
http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/TeX_and_LaTeX
Ron Fehd the LaTeX maven
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu [mailto:owner-sas-
> l@listserv.uga.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Flom
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:18 AM
> To: 'Mike Rhoads'; SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: RE: Thursday Theory
>
> Very useful, Mike!
>
> I am now investigating making a poster in LaTeX, which that site
> recommends, but doesn't discuss. Since I already use beamer, for
> presentations, I am going to look into beamerposter, which is an
> extension of beamer for posters
>
> If you don't use LaTeX, I really recommend it. For papers it's
> unbeatable. Then it's relatively easy to turn a paper into a
> presentation using aforementioned beamer. Typically, turning a RUG
> article into a presentation takes me about an hour or two. And Ron
> (the LaTeX maven) has written classes and styles to make the paper
> correctly formatted of RUGs and SGF
>
> Heck, if *I*, a NON-programmer, like LaTeX, most people on this list
> (who ARE programmers) will love it.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Mike Rhoads
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 10:59 AM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Thursday Theory
>
> One of the most useful (and undoubtedly the most entertaining)
> resources for scientific posters (not SAS specific) that I've bumped
> into is at:
> http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm
>
> Note that I have not seen the "Teaching house cats to perform cold
> fusion" topic addressed at any of the SAS conference poster sessions
> that I have attended over the years ...
>
>
> Mike Rhoads
> RhoadsM1@Westat.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:00 AM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: OT: Thursday Theory
>
> What makes a good poster?
> for SGF/RUG?
>
>
> [PDF] EFFECTIVE POSTER PRESENTATIONS FOR SAS ® USER GROUP CONFERENCES
>
> suggestions are given on poster design, materials, color, lettering,
> graphics, and construction ..... organization of the poster.
>
> http://www.nesug.org/Conference/Posters_HelenJeanTalbott.pdf - Similar
>
> From: Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OCOO/ITSO)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:47 AM
> To: 'Peter Flom'
> Subject: RE: SAS poster in LaTeX
>
> Hi Peter
> I am not an avid nor experienced poster assembler so I do not have any
> LaTeX suggestions.
>
> Within CDC I have seen people
> use PowerPoint to assemble a HUGE one-page event
> -- 49 words?! maybe 490 words! --
> which they then print on a poster printer.
>
> I suggest for consideration these items:
> * Abstract
> * References
> * Demo of concept
> * Presentation of Code
>
> The best posters I have seen have been demonstrations of visual
> elements of SAS The most memorable was at NESUG and showed how to do
> color selection.
>
> http://www.nesug.org/proceedings/nesug03/at/at002.pdf
> Oh, Yes, by Perry Watts, one of our famous doyens.
>
>
> Remember: a good presentation is an advertisement for a paper.
> What is a good poster?
> visual presentation: i.e.: advertisement for paper or proof/demo of
> concept?
>
> may put this out to SAS-L as a theory Q
>
> Ron Fehd the crowd-control maven
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