LaTeX for Administrative Work

Dr Nicola Talbot has a first class honours degree in Mathematics (University of Essex, 1991) and a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering (University of Essex, 1996). She also has a Diploma in Creative Writing (University of East Anglia, 2011) and is a joint member of the TeX User Group (TUG) and the UK TeX User Group (UK TUG). She has taught LaTeX and has written a number of LaTeX classes and packages available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) including the datatool and glossaries packages.

1. Introduction; 1.1 Packages and Document Classes; 1.2 Arara; 2. Managing Data; 2.1. Utility Commands, 2.1.1. Macro Definitions; 2.1.2. Hook Management; 2.1.3. Arithmetic; 2.2 Loading Data; 2.2.1. Loading Data From a CSV File; 2.2.2. Loading Data From a .dbtex File; 2.3. Security; 2.4. Sorting Data; 2.5. Sample Data; 2.5.1. Sample CSV Files; 2.5.2. Sample XLS File; 2.5.3. Sample SQL Tables; 2.6. Displaying Tabulated Data; 2.7. Iteration; 2.7.1. Iterating Through a Database; 2.7.2. Iterating Over a Comma-Separated List; 2.7.3. Iteration With etoolbox's Internal Lists; 2.7.4. General Iteration with TeX's /loop; 2.7.5. Iteration Tips and Tricks; 2.8. Fetching Data From a Given Row; 2.9. Null and Boolean Values; 3. Correspondence; 3.1. Writing a Letter Using the letter Class; 3.2. Writing a Letter Using the scrlttr2 Class; 3.3. Writing a Letter Using the newlfm Class; 3.4. Writing a Letter Using the isodoc Class; 3.5. Mail Merging; 3.6. Envelopes; 4. Invoices; 4.1. Writing an Invoice Using the isodoc Class; 4.2. Writing an Invoice Using the invoice Package; 4.3. Building Your Own Invoice using longtable and datatool; 5. Curricula Vitae (Resumes); 5.1. The currvita Package; 5.2. The europecv Class; 5.2.1. Setting Personal Information; 5.2.2. Sections and Publication Lists; 5.2.3. Spoken Languages; 6. Official Documents; 6.1. Memos and Press Releases; 6.2. Minutes; 6.2.1. The meetingmins Class; 6.2.2. The minutes Package; 6.3. Confidentiality; 6.3.1. Redaction: The censor Package; 6.3.2. Watermarks; 6.4. Typesetting Legal Documents (Numbered Paragraphs); 6.4.1. Hierarchical Paragraph Numbering; 6.4.2. Non-Hierarchical Paragraph Numbering; 7. Dates and Times; 7.1. The pgfcalendar Package Utility Commands; 7.2. Displaying a Date; 7.3. Parsing and Displaying Times; 7.4. Displaying a Calendar; 8. Presentations (The beamer Class); 8.1. Overlays; 8.2. Themes; 9. Assignments and Examinations; 9.1. The exam Class; 9.2. The exsheets Package; 9.3. The probsoln Package; 9.4. Using the datatool Package for Exams or Assignment Sheets; 9.5. Random Numbers; 10. Business Cards, Flyers and Leaflets; 10.1. The picture Environment; 10.2. The ticket Package; 10.3. The leaflet Class; 10.4. The pst-barcode Package; 10.5. The flowfram Package and the flowframtk Application; 11. Forms; 11.1. Writing a Class File for a Form; 11.2. Electronic PDF Forms; 12. Charts; 12.1. Flow Charts; 12.2. Pie Charts; 12.2.1. The datapie Package; 12.2.2. The pgf-pie Package; 12.3. Bar Charts; 12.3.1. The bchart Package; 12.3.2. The databar Package; 12.4. Gantt Charts; 12.5. Plots; 13. Collaborating on Documents; 13.1. Change Markup; 13.2. Version Control; 13.3. Online LaTeX Editors; Bibliography; Glossary; Summary of Commands and Environments; Index; GNU Free Documentation License