This document provides an introduction to LaTeX, covering what LaTeX is, why you would want to use it, its document structure, and how to include math, R code/objects, and references. LaTeX is a programming language used to create consistently formatted documents across different document types. It allows for fancy fonts, automatic numbering, and embedding of other objects like figures, tables, and R code/outputs. The document structure in LaTeX includes the preamble, top matter, main text, appendices, bibliography, and comments.

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LATEX Basics
Kristen Sauby, Rosana Zenil-Lopez, Gabriela Blohm
Department of Biology
University of Florida
April 1, 2011
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What is LATEX?
a programming language used to create attractive and
consistently formatted documents
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
consistent formatting
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
consistent formatting
fancy fonts
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
consistent formatting
fancy fonts
make posters, presentations, and other types of
documents
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
consistent formatting
fancy fonts
make posters, presentations, and other types of
documents
automatic numbering of sections,

7. gures, tables, and
formulas
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
consistent formatting
fancy fonts
make posters, presentations, and other types of
documents
automatic numbering of sections,

9. gures, tables, and
formulas
creation of a bibliography and index
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
include, align, and number attractive mathematical
formulas
n!
k!(n k)!
=
(
n
k
)
(1)
lim
x!1
exp(x) = 0 (2)
Am;n =


a1;1 a1;2 a1;n
a2;1 a2;2 a2;n
...
...
. . . ...
am;1 am;2 am;n
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
(3)
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
Embed R code and objects
sample(100, 5)
[1] 85 79 82 62 73
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Why would you want to use LATEX?
Embed R code and objects
library(xtable)
counts - c(18, 17, 15, 20, 10, 20, 25, 13, 12)
outcome - gl(3, 1, 9)
treatment - gl(3, 3)
print(xtable(data.frame(treatment, outcome, counts)))
treatment outcome counts
1 1 1 18.00
2 1 2 17.00
3 1 3 15.00
4 2 1 20.00
5 2 2 10.00
6 2 3 20.00
7 3 1 25.00
8 3 2 13.00
9 3 3 12.00
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14. We'll Work Through an Example Together
Go to latexlab.org or open the example .tex

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computer.
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16. We'll Work Through an Example Together
Go to latexlab.org or open the example .tex

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computer.
We'll use this example document to understand better the
structure of LATEX documents.
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18. We'll Work Through an Example Together
Go to latexlab.org or open the example .tex

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computer.
We'll use this example document to understand better the
structure of LATEX documents.
In LATEX lab, select split (near the bottom left of the
page)
this lets us see the .tex document and the ouput
document (the compiled document) in the same
window.
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20. What types of documents can you make in LATEX?
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Classes of LATEX documents include:
article
book
beamer (for presentations)
and more
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
the written document (abstract, sections, etc.)
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
the written document (abstract, sections, etc.)
appendices
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
the written document (abstract, sections, etc.)
appendices
table of contents
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
the written document (abstract, sections, etc.)
appendices
table of contents
bibliography
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LATEX Document Structure
preamble (commands that aect the entire document)
top matter (title, date, authors, etc.)
the written document (abstract, sections, etc.)
appendices
table of contents
bibliography
comments (i.e., text that does not show up in the

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LATEX Document Structure
Begin your document using the following command:
ndocumentstyle[options]fclassg
where options include such speci

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font size
number of columns
paper size
and the class is the type of document that you want to
make
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LATEX Document Structure
Next list the packages to be used:
nusepackage[options]fpackageg
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LATEX Document Structure
The preamble can also include:
title and author information
date
font speci

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and more
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LATEX Document Structure
After completing the preamble begin the document:
nbeginfdocumentg
At the end of the document you must include the
command:
nendfdocumentg
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Compiling Your LATEX
Once you have the document set up, you can then add
text,

36. gures, formulas, tables, etc. to the document.
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Types of Functions in LATEX
Ways to organize or include data:
verbatim
itemize
enumerate

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table
tabular
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Types of Functions in LATEX
Ways to organize or include data:
verbatim
itemize
enumerate

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table
tabular
Try adding a bulleted list to the example .tex

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Types of Functions
You can also include comments (that don't appear in the

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Anything after the % symbol will not be evaluated by
LATEX when compiling the document.
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Including Math in LATEX
Note that our example .tex

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nusepackagefamsmathg in the preamble.
This package lets us include mathematical formulas in our
LATEX document.
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Including Math in LATEX
The example .tex

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nbeginfaligng
E = mc^2 nn
m = nfracfm 0gfnsqrtf1-nfracfv^2gfc^2ggg
nendfaligng
The aligncommand is speci