This document outlines an advanced LaTeX workshop. The workshop instructor, Shawn Lankton, begins by asking attendees about their LaTeX experience levels. The outline then covers basic LaTeX review, tips for Georgia Tech theses, useful LaTeX packages like amsmath and hyperref, creating bibliographies with BibTeX, formatting figures, and creating slide presentations and posters using the beamer package. The document provides an overview of the topics to be covered in the workshop.

1. Advanced Topics in LATEX
Shawn Lankton
Georgia Institute of Technology
January 28, 2015
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2. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
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3. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
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4. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
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5. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
How many are here is working on a thesis?
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6. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
How many are here is working on a thesis?
How many want to know more about graphics?
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7. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
How many are here is working on a thesis?
How many want to know more about graphics?
How many want to know about posters?
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8. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
How many are here is working on a thesis?
How many want to know more about graphics?
How many want to know about posters?
How many want to know about slides?
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9. Getting to know each other
How many have used LATEX?
How many have written a paper?
How many have experience with beamer?
How many are here is working on a thesis?
How many want to know more about graphics?
How many want to know about posters?
How many want to know about slides?
Anything I missed that people want?
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10. Outline
• Basic LATEXreview
• GT thesis tips
• Useful packages
• BibTeX bibliographies
• Great looking figures
• Slide presentations in LATEX
• Posters in LATEX
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11. LATEXBasics
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12. Basic LATEXreview
• Markup language
• Used to typeset documents easily
• Based on commands[options]{arguments}
• As well as
begin{environments}
with stuff in them
end{environments}
• Driven by style files
• Compiled into beautiful documents
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13. Our setup here
• Windows - OS
• MiKTEX - TEXDistribution
• TEXnicCenter - Editor
• Other OS?
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14. GaTech Thesis
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15. GT Thesis
download from here:
http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/thesis/templates.php
most important files:
• gatech-thesis.cls
• gatech-thesis.bst
• gatech-thesis.sty
• example-thesis.tex
• example-thesis.bib
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16. Taking a Look at the Thesis
Download and unzip gatech-thesis-1.7.zip
Open example-thesis.tex (also in thesis_tutorial)
• Title information
• Preliminary pages
• Options and defaults
• Draft mode
• Figure captions
• Readme
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17. Packages
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18. Useful Packages
• amsmath, amsfonts
• hyperref
• subfigure
• other suggestions?
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19. hyperref
usepackage{hyperref}
hypersetup{
bookmarks=true,
pdftitle={My title},
pdfauthor={Author},
pdfsubject={Subject},
pdfcreator={Creator},
pdfkeywords={keywords},
pdfnewwindow=true,
}
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20. hyperref
• My usual setup:
usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
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21. hyperref
• My usual setup:
usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
• Activate back references in bibliography
usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
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22. hyperref
• My usual setup:
usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
• Activate back references in bibliography
usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
• URL Links in your paper:
url{http://www.gatech.edu}
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23. hyperref
• My usual setup:
usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
• Activate back references in bibliography
usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
• URL Links in your paper:
url{http://www.gatech.edu}
• Links when you use ref or cite:
Example: Slide 3
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24. hyperref
• My usual setup:
usepackage[colorlinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
• Activate back references in bibliography
usepackage[pagebackref=true]{hyperref}
• URL Links in your paper:
url{http://www.gatech.edu}
• Links when you use ref or cite:
Example: Slide 3
• Make the whole thing click-able like this:
hyperref[frame:outline]{Slide ref{frame:outline}}
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25. BibTeX
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26. BibTeX Topics
1 Bibliographies
2 Creating .bib files
3 Shortcuts to making .bib files
4 Bibliography styles
5 Usage
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27. Figures
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28. Figure Topics
1 The basics
2 Setting sizes
3 Spacing
4 Subfigure
5 Boxes
6 Tabular
7 Cheating
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29. Beamer
(Posters and Slides)
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30. Why use beamer?
• Free
• Cross-platform
• Text-based design
• Easily incorporate equations
• Easily incorporate figures
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31. Beamer basics
• Just a package
• http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
• Mostly, just like documents
• Slides or posters
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32. Slides tutorial
1 Basics
2 Frames and frame titles
3 Pause, order, and overprint
4 Blocks and columns
5 Themes and getting pretty
6 Sections and outlines
7 Wrapping up
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33. Posters
• The originator: Philippe Dreuw
http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-
aachen.de/∼dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php
• OR: Google “beamer poster”
• Basically a single slide
• Great for conferences
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34. Poster Tutorial
1 The basics
2 Sizing the poster
3 The basic format
4 Making things line up
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35. Questions
• “Not so Short Guide to LATEX2e”
• “Beamer User Guide”
• Google
• My site: http://www.shawnlankton.com/category/latex
• Me: shawn at shawnlankton dot com
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