This document provides a basic tutorial on LaTeX, covering its history and advantages, installation instructions, common document types, general syntax, formatting commands, sections, lists, tables, graphics, and bibliographies. It explains that LaTeX is a typesetting program, not a word processor, and offers higher quality, easier mathematical formatting, and uniform layout compared to word processors. It also gives examples of LaTeX code for formatting text, creating documents, and inserting tables, images, and citations.

1. LATEX
BASIC TUTORIAL.

2. History & Advantages
Tex : D. E. Knuth
Latex : L. B. Lamport
Latex pronounced (latek)
A type setting program, not a word processor.
Why use latex?
 Higher quality
 Easier mathematical symbol insertion.
 Neat
 Uniform formatting
 IEEE format
 Difficult to change
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3. Installation
Windows installation
I. Install Latex core
II. Install an editor to create you raw file(*.tex) format
III. Set path to Latex binaries. (This step will be shown to you while we get hands on)
Linux Installation
I. Ubuntu : sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
(similar for all ‘debian’ based OS’s)
II. Fedora : sudo yum install texlive-latex-base
(similar for all ‘Red Hat enterprise system’)
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4. Types of Documents
 Article
 Report
 Book
 Beamer
 Many more..
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5. General Syntax
function [optional_parameters]{important_parameters}
this makes the compiler know that what follow is a fuction.
function name of the function
example : documentclass [a4paper,12pt] {article}
: documentclass {report}
: begin{document}
: epsilon
: title{NBNSSOE}
: end{document}
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6. Things to Remember
 textit{italicizes your text}
 textbf{makes your text bold Face}
 underline{underlines the text}
 emp{emphasizes your text, if bold uses italic and if italic uses bold}
 (gets us a new line, like n in our programming language.)
 A blank line gets us a new paragraph.
 newpage
 beginning{alignment}…..... end{alignment}
$12<13$ (Mathematical expressions/equations to be written between two $ signs)
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7. Sample Document Explained
documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
title{sample text}
preamble
%usepackage{package_name}
begin{document}
maketitle
This is a sample document to demonstrate you the use of textit{latex}. We are here stressing
on different prospect and different functions of latex like textbf{bold}, $12<13$ i.e.
mathematical, and symbols like $epsilon$.
Here we inserted new line. Hope this gives you basic idea about latex. We will see to it in more
details. All you need is to remember different sequences for different things.
noindent Thanks..
end{document}
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8. Sections
documentclass{article}
title{Section tuitorial}
begin{document}
maketitle
section{I am the Section}
subsection{I am the Sub Section}
subsubsection{I am the sub sub section}
paragraph{I am the paragraph}
subparagraph{I am the sub Paragraph}
end{document}
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9. Bullets and Numbering
documentclass{article}
begin{document}
begin{itemize}
item Item 1
item Item 2
end{itemize}
begin{enumerate}
item Item 1
item Item 2
end{enumerate}
end{document}
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10. Table
documentclass{article}
title{Table Tutorial}
begin{document}
maketitle
lets see how sample table works.
begin{tabular}{|l|c|r|} % l c r are left, center and right alignment.
hline
Name & Roll & mobile
hline
Ankit & 50 & 9955970001
Anant & 03 & 923134141
hline
end{tabular}
end{document}
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11. Table continued
documentclass[12pt]{article}
title{Experiment No: 1}
date{}
begin{document}
maketitle
begin{tabular}{|p{2cm}|p{11cm}|} % Size is must for text wrap in table
hline
Title & Addition of array % & separates different row.
hline
Aim & WAP in Nasm to add array of 10 numbers.newline Accept input from user.
hline
Prerequisite & MicroProcessor Architecture
hline
end{tabular}
end{document}
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12. Graphicx
documentclass{article}
title{Graphics Tutorial}
usepackage{graphicx}
begin{document}
This is what an image looks like..
includegraphics[scale=0.6]{img.jpeg} % scale to reduce image size
caption{Image_name}
end{document}
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13. Bibliography
documentclass{article}
title{Learning Bibliography}
begin{documnet}
maketitle
I am a paragraph from thisisbibliography, please reference me. cite{RefName1}
begin{thebibliography}{10}
bibitem{RefName1} url{www.thisisbibliography.com}
bibitem{RefName2} This is a referenece.
end{thebibliography}
end{document}
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