hi! Is anyone using online templates?
I downloaded one for my thesis and have put in the text part,
but now how do I make a table, is there a template for this as well, and how do I put abbreviations? I just want to make a list of abbreviations:

BC = before Christ
ASAP = as soon as possible

but with proper spacing.

thanks a lot
love satchi

Hello

I am not sure if this is of help, but the wikibook for latex is always a lot of help, and i generally manage to use it successfully.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables

Please find the link from this wikibook regarding tables. Tables are not so easy to include. Sometimes what I do is that I convert the tables to images (preparing them in word or powerpoint, the using corel draw to convert to .eps) and insert them as images.
Hope this is of help

hi ailicec
thanks for your post
Im going to put the abbreviation page now; I think just add command to thesis.tex and make another .tex document, something like that.

*trying now
love satchi

Hello

If you just need to insert the document, just do new document e.g. abbrev.tex...and wherever you want to put it in do /input{abbrev.tex} or something similar, depending on the saved location within the folder of the latex project...remember to save the abbrev.tex to the relevant project you are working on

hi again I put it in the prelude.tex
but also in thesis.tex but nothing happened!

what am I missing

love satchi

Hi Satchi, to insert a simple table into your text you could use the example below, this will produce a two column table with a single column to start with for a title

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{||p{5cm}||p{5cm}||}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{TITLE} \\hline
First Column Heading & Second Column Heading \\hline
Ist Column Data #1 & Second Column #1 \\hline
Ist Column Data #2 & Second Column #2 \\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Title for Under table}
\label{tab:Name to be able to reference table further on in text}
\end{table}

Hope this helps fro adding a simple table, if you need more info give a shout back and I will try and help, I think this is the sort of thing you were looking at.
Max

Hi Maxipat
thanks a lot
I managed to get my abbreviation; but I have put it under Appendix because thesis.tex couldn't generate the Abbreviations page (!) I dont know what else I did wrong; I did make a separate Abbreviations.tex and also put under \include...

thanks so much for the table syntax
Im still fiddling with the abbreviation, i am using the glossaries package from nicola talbot's link; I put that in the first appendix page

will let you know how it goes
thanks
love satchi

Is it giving any errors when you compile it?

hi! Ok got it done, its because I forgot to add it into the .sty file.
Now after typesetting thesis.tex it is showing up :-)
I'm still learning how latex works
thank you
love satchi