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    1. Getting started with LaTeX – frequently encountered issues Ronja Addams-Moring Kie-98.1601 English Oral Skills Test 10. February 2009
    2. Disclaimer
      • The facts about LaTeX you can verify
      • The experiences, interpretations and opinions, however, are mine
      • There certainly are similarities with some other persons' views but that is not their responsibility
      • Feel free to copy, distribute, criticize, ignore or form derivative opinions as you see fit 
    3. Presentation outline
      • First: some unlearning may be needed
      • Task analysis: What we researchers do
      • Requirements: What we need
      • Historical overview
      • To LaTeX or not to LaTeX?
      • Typical issues when one begins
      • After this presentation: LaTeX demo
    4. Unlearn first?
      • Documents are created and maintained with quite varying software
        • vi, emacs, pico, jEdit, OO Writer...
        • notepad, WordPad, MS Word...
        • Adobe Acrobat, FrameMaker...
        • TikiWiki, MediaWiki, Joomla!, Mambo...
      • LaTeX has its own philosophy and logic
      • Do not expect “just another X” - you will frustrate yourself and make mistakes
    5. Task analysis 1(2)
      • A simplified ”circle of life” of scientific-scholarly knowledge
        • Researcher A publishes a new result
        • Based on A’s result, other researchers create more new knowledge
        • Researcher A uses other researchers’ results as input for more research
        • The process repeats: Body of Knowledge grows larger and better with each ”round”
    6. Task analysis 2(2)
      • Necessary precondition for publishing: presenting research results accurately in scientific/scholarly works
        • Readable, precise language
        • Exact and fault-free citing
        • Unambiguous symbols
        • Effective-to-read typescript and layout
        • Clear layout for tables and figures
      • Writing/drawing/editing tools needed
    7. Requirements for tools
      • Some essential necessities
        • Re-use of references in new works
        • Correct word divisions (in any language)
        • Correct cross-referencing in the article
        • No orphan lines or other layout “uglinesses”
        • etc
    8. Historical overview 1(3)
      • Before ca. 1975 only proprietary printing systems, typesetting far from author
        • Problem: typesetting introduced mistakes
        • Solution: author corrected proof prints manually
        • New problem: corrections entered incorrectly -> more mistakes !
      • 1977 Donald Knuth (comp.sci.) had enough
      • 1982 TeX: formulae, symbols - free software
      • 1984 LaTeX (document structure) by Leslie Lamport (CS, math), 1986 The Book
    9. Historical overview 2(3)
      • The TeX innovation: device independence
        • This was news back then...
      • Some limitations
        • WYSIWYM, not WYSIWYG
        • need to learn the markup
      • Some advantages
        • free software: Windows (MiKTeX), Unix/Linux (TeX-live) and MacOS X
        • keeps document neat through changes
        • no-hassle references, footnotes etc.
    10. Historical overview 3(3)
      • Today de facto standard for (most) IEEE and ACM journals and conferences
      • Stable, bug-free, genuinely multi-lingual
      • Future: depends on MiKTeX - ?
      • Personal experience & opinion:
        • since 1983 have heard of one friend-of-a-friend who had a bug-like problem with LaTeX (around 1988-1992)
        • anything longer than 8-12 pages -> LaTeX
    11. To LaTeX or not to LaTeX?
      • How large a work? 15+ pages -> LaTeX motivated
      • Need to structure work / use many files -> LaTeX motivated
      • If e.g. mathematical or Greek alphabet symbols needed -> LaTeX motivated
      • If journal / conference only has LaTeX templates: use them, don't argue
      • More brains, less money -> using free software makes sense
    12. Typical beginner's issues 1(4)
      • What are all these files?!?
      • You must edit
        • one .tex (the actual article text)
        • one .bib (your bibliography = literature)
      • You may create and/or edit
        • .eps (figure files: pictures, graphs...)
        • other input files
      • You must not edit
        • .sty (text layout style) and related
        • .bst (bibliography style) and related
    13. Typical beginner's issues 2(4)
      • Don't panic about the many details - you only need to learn what you use
      • LaTeX resembles HTML or wiki markup: tags inside text
      • Extra whitespace in .tex or .bib will not show in end result -> use as you please
      • The “magic” characters - must “quote” in .tex or .bib : { } $ ^ _ % ~ # &
        • don't use in file names of input files!
    14. Typical beginner's issues 3(4)
      • Only the cited works from .bib listed by default -> when in doubt, make entry
      • Where to put cite{AuthYEAR} in .tex?
      • cite or citet or citep?
      • How do I get (also in demo)
        • bolded text (italics not so readable)
        • lists (numbered / bulleted)
        • tables, pictures
        • chapter, section and subsection headers
    15. Typical beginner's issues 4(4)
      • BibTeX entry types = ? (Article, InProceedings, Proceedings...)
      • How do I get that nice-looking PDF?
      • Why “acm” not “ACM” in the PDF's reference list? -> add {} around
      • Other questions?
      • Learn to use (on-line) manuals!
      • Google: LaTeX OR BibTeX tutorial OR beginner OR guide -> 7.5 M hits!
    16. A few useful guides
      • Oetiker: The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2 (PDF - do save a copy!)
      • http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
      • http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
      • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX
      • http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/jenny/jcwdocs/latex/bibtexbasics.html
      • http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/osborne/latex/BIBTEX.HTM
    17. Thank you
      • Questions?
      • My contact info
        • http://www.iki.fi/~ronja/
        • http://www.linkedin.com/in/addamsmoring
        • ronja [AT] iki [DOT] fi
        • skype: ronja-am
    18. Use and share these slides, please!
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      • Attribution info: Ronja Addams-Moring: "Getting started with LaTeX – frequently encountered issues". Presentation 10th February 2009 at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Espoo, Finland, EU.
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