This document introduces LaTeX, an open-source document preparation system. It discusses the advantages of LaTeX such as handling large documents and equations easily. It describes the parts of a LaTeX document including the document class, packages, and bibliography. Examples are provided for lists, figures, tables, and equations. Information is also given about installing LaTeX on your system and using the Georgia Tech thesis template.

1. An Introduction to
Soumyo Dutta
soumyo.dutta@live.com
GT Library & Information Center
Graduate Library User Education Workshop
Series

2. Outline
 LaTeX advantages
 LaTeX IDE
 Parts of LaTeX document
 Examples
 Georgia Tech Thesis
 Resources
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3. Why
 LaTeX is not WYSIWYG*
◦ Manuscript/Typesetting program
 Easy to handle large documents
◦ Break-up chapters/sections into separate documents
◦ Easily handle cross-references/citations across parts
(almost impossible with Word)
 References
◦ Cite as you go
◦ Reference generated/sorted automatically
 Equations
◦ Professional look
◦ Easy to cite
◦ Easy subequations/Math type in text
 Formatting
◦ Formatting of group of text very easy to change
◦ Change paper from Style A (for a conference) to Style B
(for GT Thesis) using the same LaTeX code
* What You See Is What You Get
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4. Why
 LaTeX is not WYSIWYG*
◦ Manuscript/Typesetting program
 Easy to handle large documents
◦ Break-up chapters/sections into separate documents
◦ Easily handle cross-references/citations across parts
(almost impossible with Word)
 References
◦ Cite as you go
◦ Reference generated/sorted automatically
Word example of in text equations
 Equations
◦ Professional look
◦ Easy to cite
◦ Easy subequations/Math type in text
 Formatting
◦ Formatting of group of text very easy to change
◦ Change paper from Style A (for a conference) to Style B
(for GT Thesis) using the same LaTeX code
* What You See Is What You Get
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5. LaTeX IDE*– TeXnicCenter
Build (Ctrl + F7)
Error Bad Box
s
Output format Warning
s
View Output (F5)
* Integrated Development Environment
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6. LaTeX IDE – Installing
Packages
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7. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Document class
◦ Packages
◦ Title block
◦ Start/end code
◦ Specialized section
◦ Bibliography
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8. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Document class
[option] {type}
option: type:
• Font size • Article
• Papersize • Book
• Letter
• Report
• {.cls}
• Mandatory for all documents
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9. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Packages
[option] {type}
• After document class
• Not mandatory for all documents
• Allows you to use commands not
included with LaTeX distribution (e.g.
subfigures)
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10. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as style:
• .bst
.tex • Style downloaded
 Document parts: from Internet
{style} • Various citation
◦ Bibliography styles (e.g. Chicago,
IEEE, etc.)
reference file:
{reference file} • .bib
• Your citation info
• Use Jabref or by-hand
• Usually before end{document}
• Creates bibliography at that point in the document
• Not mandatory for all documents
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11. Parts of LaTeX document
 Important code characters
◦ Start/end characters
 begin{} … end{}
 {[( )]}
◦ Math text: damping sum $(C_{mq}+C_{malpha})$
◦ Commands start with
◦ Comments%
 Dividing commands (no need for start/end)
◦ chapter{}
◦ section{} subsection{} subsubsection{}
{Name of Section}
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12. Example # 1: Lists
• itemizeor enumerate
Blank line in LaTeX is not
equal to blank line in text
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13. Example # 1: Lists (Practice)
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14. Example # 2: Figures
• graphicxfor includegraphics
• subfigure for subfigure
ref{keyword}refers back to label{keyword}
~ = automatically adds space between words
• includegraphics[scaling]{location of
graphic}
• subfigure[subcaption]{figure information}
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15. Example # 2: Figures
(Practice)
 Go to:
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/about save image
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/sports save image
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16. Example # 2: Figures
(Practice)
 Go to:
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/about save image
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/sports save image
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17. Example # 3: Tables
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18. Example # 3: Tables
table and tabular
multicolumn[numcol]{format}{text}
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19. Example # 4: Equations
• amsmathfor greek
symbols, math, equations
align and &
equation and
subequation
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20. Example # 5: References
Manual entries
or
bibliography{.bib}
bibliographystyle{.bst
}
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21. Combined Practice
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22. Combined Practice
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23. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Download thesis template
◦ http://gradadmiss.gatech.edu/thesis/
templates.php (Updated August
2010)
 What’s included
◦ example-thesis.tex– main TeX file
◦ gatech-thesis.cls– class file
◦ example-thesis.bib– bibliography file
 For more information visit
◦ http://gradadmiss.gatech.edu/thesis.
php
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24. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Chapter organization
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25. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Nomenclature
◦ makeindex.exe
Sets-up TeXnicCenter to run
makeindexautomatically
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26. Georgia Tech Thesis
• Define nomenclature and nomunit
commands
Packages: nomencl
Also need ifthen to define
commands
makenomenclature
Creates nomenclature before document
Creating a new LaTeX command:
nomenclature[type]{symbol}{text}
nomunit{text}
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27. Georgia Tech Thesis
Example of usage of nomenclature
and nomunitin code and output
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28. Resources

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29. Example codes from this
class
 http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~sdutta8/latex
 Download
SDutta_Latex_Example_Code.zip
 Unzip file
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