the latex workshop: beginning to type documents in latex

Motivation Installation Typeset Compile

Document design in LATEXThe motivation

Suddhasheel Ghosh

1Department of Civil EngineeringMGM’s Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College,

Aurangabad, MH

2MGM - Institute of Biosciences and TechnologyAurangabad, MH

The LaTeX workshop

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Outline

1 Motivation

2 Getting ready with our machineryInstalling it on WindowsInstalling it on Linux

3 Fundas of document typesettingThe preambleThe bodyTypesetting mathematicsTables

4 Compiling a LaTeX file

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Oh Wonder!

This presentation has beendesigned on LATEX !

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Some history... and details

Initially started with the TEXprogram for typesettingmathematical and scientific documentsLATEX is a set of macros and definitions built over theTEXpackageThe LATEX project is hosted athttp://www.latex-project.org/

This package is FREE and provided under the LPPL (LATEXProject Public License)Latest version is LATEX2ε

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http://www.latex-project.org/


How do I say LATEX

The origin of the word TEX is the Greek τεχνηmeaning“skill, art, technique” and is pronounced “tech” as in theword “technician”LATEX is pronounced as LAY-tek or LAH-tek.Donald E. Knuth encourages pronunciation as LAY-tek.Leslie Lamport says any pronunciation can be used.Modern trends suggest pronunciation as LAY-tekh.

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Excuses for using LaTeX

I do not wish to use “commercial” softwareI am not happy with the mathematical rendering of the“Commercial software”Too much mathematical content in my documents and Iam tired of the click-find-click-type-repeatMath makes my documents look badly formattedI like typing more than clickingI would like to explore

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Motivation Installation Typeset Compile Windows Linux

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Our requirements

The basic toolsA LaTeX distributionA LaTeX document editor: preferably one which can editLaTeX documents and compile them too.A document visualizer: preferably a PDF viewer

The advanced toolsA bibliography management softwareA WYSIWYG editorA GUI environment for drawing plots / graphs of functionsImage editing software

In this session, we present the basic tools for design.

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Getting our machinery readyOn Microsoft Windows

LaTeX distribution:MikTeX (www.miktex.org).Download the basic installer. Installs required packages‘on-the-fly’.

LaTeX Editor:Open Source: TeXnicCenter (www.texniccenter.org)Commercial: WinEdtWith the distribution: TeXWorks recommended

PDF Viewer: Adobe Acrobat Reader (freely downloadable)

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www.miktex.org

www.texniccenter.org


Getting our machinery readyOn Linux

LaTeX distribution: TexLiveDebian based: sudo apt-get install texliveRed Hat based: sudo yum install texlive

LaTeX Editor:TeXworksTeXStudioGEdit with the LaTeX plugins

PDF Viewer: Evince, Okular

Linux Systems

Debian based: Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pinguy, ...Red Hat based: RHEL, Febora, Suse, ...

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Motivation Installation Typeset Compile Preamble The body Math Tables

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Dissecting a LaTeX fileProperties

File extension: .texFile parts

The preambleThe body

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The preambleContents

Announcement of the class template: Typically\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}

Optional: List of packages to be used. Looks like\usepackage{...}

Optional: Font face specificationsOptional: Definitions and other macros

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The bodyContents

Sections, subsections and subsubsectionsMath: Inline, Display and equationsFiguresTables

Typical body layout

\begin{document}\section{My first section}\subsection{My sub section}\subsubsection{More details}\subsection{Another sub section}\subsubsection{Some more details}. . .\end{document}

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Typesetting mathematicsInline, display and equations

All inline math have to be surrounded by $, display math by $$, andequations by \begin{equation} . . . \end{equation}

SourceThe second order algebraicpolynomial is given by $x^2+ x + 1$. This can bewritten in the displaymode as$$ x^2 + x + 1. $$The equation of thecircle with radius $a$is given as\begin{equation}x^2 + y^2 = a^2\end{equation}

Output

The second order algebraicpolynomial is given by x2 + x + 1.This can be written in the displaymode as

x2 + x + 1

The equation of the circle with radiusa is given as:

x2 + y2 = a2 (1)

More details on mathematical typesetting are in my presentation:Typesetting Mathematics in LaTeX: Getting your hands dirty

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Setting up tables

\begin{table}\centering\begin{tabular}{|l|c|r|c|}\hlineClothing & Quantity & Rate & Place \\ \hlinePaithani & 1 & 1135.00 & Marathwada \\ \hlineBaluchari &2 &1345.00 &Orissa \\ \hlineBanarasi & 5 & 923.00 &Uttar Pradesh \\ \hline\end{tabular}\end{table}

Clothing Quantity Rate PlacePaithani 1 1135.00 MarathwadaBaluchari 2 1345.00 OrissaBanarasi 5 923.00 Uttar Pradesh

l - indicates left justified column, r - indicates right justifiedcolumn and c - indicates center justified column. More detailsare covered in Writing Journal papers in LaTeX: A complete

tour

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Setting up images

This requires\usepackage{graphicx}in the preamble

\begin{figure}\centering\includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{dumbledore.jpg}\caption{Dumbledore passes away}\end{figure}

Figure : Dumbledore passes away

This image has been taken fromhttp://harrypotter.wikia.com.

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Compiling the LaTeX code

The compilation can be done withlatex - produces DVI filespslatex - produces PS filespdflatex - produces PDF files

If the name of the file is mypaper.tex the command lines are:latex mypaper.tex

pslatex mypaper.tex

pdflatex mypaper.tex

LaTeX editors like TeXnicCenter, WinEdt, TeXworks, Kile,TeXStudio automatically run these commands based on the

preferences set.

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the latex workshop: beginning to type documents in latex

Documents

document visualizer

thetexpackagethe latex

editlatex documents

latexthe origin

mathematical content

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