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![Motivation Basics Controlling Appearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References
Commands
LATEX commands
acommand
anothercommand{argument}
yetanothercommand[options]{argument}
% a comment. I can say what I like here!
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![Motivation Basics Controlling Appearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References
Document Structure
Overall structure of a LATEX document:
documentclass[...]{...}
% preamble
...
begin{document}
% body of the document
...
end{document}
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Document Structure
The preamble:
documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
% the next line is only needed if you plan
% to embed a PostScript figure in the text
usepackage{graphics}
title{A LaTeX File}
author{Vijay Ukani}
% date{if you are unhappy with the default}
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This document provides an introduction to LaTeX, covering topics such as motivation, basics, controlling appearance, adding structure, and BibTeX references. It explains what LaTeX is, why it is used, its advantages over word processors, and some limitations. It also covers LaTeX commands, document structure, running LaTeX, formatting text, adding lists, sections, tables, figures, and equations. The document is presented as a slideshow introduction to LaTeX.
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- 1. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References The LATEX Document Preparation System Vijay Ukani, Computer Science and Engineering Department Nirma University, Ahmedabad September 20, 2014 Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 2. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References 1 Motivation 2 Basics Commands Document Structure Running LATEX 3 Controlling Appearance Making Lists Fonts, Symbols, quotations and footnotes 4 Adding Structure Sections Tables, Figures and Equations 5 BIBTEX Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 3. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References What is TEXand LATEX? TEX typesetting system developed by DONALD E. KNUTH (Stanford University) to create beautiful documents, especially those containing maths. TEX is free software focusing more upon formatting. LATEX LATEX is a set of macros built on top of TEX. TEX-macroprocessor is written by LESLIE LAMPORT, which implements a markup-language. Allows users to concentrate on the content of the document rather than on formatting. Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 4. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References What is LATEX? pronounced as Lah-tek, or Lay-tek a typesetting program, not a word-processor macros of TeX (Donald E. Knuth) current version LATEX2" designed for producing beautiful Books, Thesis, Papers, Articles... de facto standard for writing academic papers Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 5. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Why LATEX? platform, version independent (Unix, Windows), freely available High quality math typesetting Only a few commands to de
- 6. ne the structureof text, no knowledge of typography or book design required Complex scienti
- 7. c documents canbe created automatically including: bibliography index, glossaries crossreferences table of contents, lists of
- 8. gures, tables etc. . . . used widely in scienti
- 9. c world andrequired for most conference or journal submissions allows you to think about content than format Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 10. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Limitations of LATEX learning curve LATEX is not WYSIWYG you have to compile your
- 11. les before youcan see the changes. Rather it is WYMIWYG (What You Mean is What You Get) If you are trying to produce a document for which there is no pre-de
- 12. ned layout, itrequires a fair bit of knowledge to design a new layout You cannot easily exchange LATEX
- 13. les with colleagueswho are unfamiliar with it Un exible formatting (dicult to change position of
- 14. gures) Requires compilation Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 15. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Word and LATEXcomparison Figure: Word and LATEXcomparison1 1Source: http://www.pinteric.com/miktex.html Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 16. Word and LATEXcomparison Figure: Word and LATEX comparison2 2Source: http://www.zinktypogra
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- 18. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Word and LATEX comparison Plus points of LATEX Speed Security Separation of contents from formatting Control Flexibility Interoperable . . . Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 19. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Word and LATEX comparison Plus points of Word Grammar Checker Lesser time for smaller documents WYSIWYG Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 20. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Where to get LATEX? Windows MikTeX, The LATEXCompiler http://www.miktex.de/ LATEXEditors WinEdt (Share ware) LATEXEditor, LEd, a free LaTeX editor TexNIC center, a free LaTeX editor WinShell, SciTE (Open Source) Notepad, wordpad or any other text editor can be used Linux TeXLive/teTex, available with most Linux distros Kile, a free LaTeX editor gedit with LATEXplugin Online LATEX https://www.writelatex.com/edu https://www.sharelatex.com/ Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 21. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Outline 1 Motivation 2 Basics Commands Document Structure Running LATEX 3 Controlling Appearance Making Lists Fonts, Symbols, quotations and footnotes 4 Adding Structure Sections Tables, Figures and Equations 5 BIBTEX Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 22. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Commands LATEX commands acommand anothercommand{argument} yetanothercommand[options]{argument} % a comment. I can say what I like here! Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 23. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Document Structure Overall structure of a LATEX document: documentclass[...]{...} % preamble ... begin{document} % body of the document ... end{document} Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 24. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Document Structure The preamble: documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} % the next line is only needed if you plan % to embed a PostScript figure in the text usepackage{graphics} title{A LaTeX File} author{Vijay Ukani} % date{if you are unhappy with the default} Document classes: article, report, book, beamer, userde
- 25. nedclass and options:10pt, 11pt, twocolumn, a4paper, a5paper . . . Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 26. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Document Structure The body: begin{document} maketitle section{Introduction} Some text... section{The Middle} Some more ... section{Conclusion} The final part end{document} Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 27. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 28. le Vijay UkaniNirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 29. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 30. le Prepare yourlatex
- 31. le as perprevious slide Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 32. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 33. le Prepare yourlatex
- 34. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 35. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 36. le Prepare yourlatex
- 37. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Compile your document with LaTeX
- 38. lename.tex command onDOS prompt or click TEX button in the menubar Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 39. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 40. le Prepare yourlatex
- 41. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Compile your document with LaTeX
- 42. lename.tex command onDOS prompt or click TEX button in the menubar View the dvi output Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 43. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 44. le Prepare yourlatex
- 45. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Compile your document with LaTeX
- 46. lename.tex command onDOS prompt or click TEX button in the menubar View the dvi output To get pdf output, the command is pd atex
- 47. lename.tex View thepdf output Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 48. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 49. le Prepare yourlatex
- 50. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Compile your document with LaTeX
- 51. lename.tex command onDOS prompt or click TEX button in the menubar View the dvi output To get pdf output, the command is pd atex
- 52. lename.tex View thepdf output Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 53. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Running LATEX Running and Viewing LATEX Start WinEdt or any of your favorite TEX editor Create a new .tex
- 54. le Prepare yourlatex
- 55. le as perprevious slide Prepare Bibliography, if any Use BibTex to process Bibliography Compile your document with LaTeX
- 56. lename.tex command onDOS prompt or click TEX button in the menubar View the dvi output To get pdf output, the command is pd atex
- 57. lename.tex View thepdf output Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 58. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Outline 1 Motivation 2 Basics Commands Document Structure Running LATEX 3 Controlling Appearance Making Lists Fonts, Symbols, quotations and footnotes 4 Adding Structure Sections Tables, Figures and Equations 5 BIBTEX Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 59. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Making Lists Numbered Lists List of Metros in India begin{enumerate} item Delhi pause item Mumbai pause item Kolkata pause item Chennai end{enumerate} Looks like:- List of Metros in India 1 Delhi 2 Mumbai Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 60. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Making Lists Numbered Lists List of Metros in India begin{enumerate} item Delhi pause item Mumbai pause item Kolkata pause item Chennai end{enumerate} Looks like:- List of Metros in India 1 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Kolkata Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX
- 61. Motivation Basics ControllingAppearance Adding Structure BIBTEX References Making Lists Numbered Lists List of Metros in India begin{enumerate} item Delhi pause item Mumbai pause item Kolkata pause item Chennai end{enumerate} Looks like:- List of Metros in India 1 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Kolkata 4 Chennai Vijay Ukani Nirma University, Ahmedabad Introduction to LATEX