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{| border=1
!Time
!Narration
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|0:00
|Welcome to this tutorial on how to write letters using latex
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|0:06
|You can see three windows:
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|0:08
|These correspond to the three distinct phases in typesetting through latex:
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|0:13
|creation of source file, compilation to produce the pdf file and viewing it through a pdf reader.
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|0:22
|I am using the free pdf reader “Skim” in Mac OSX because it automatically loads the latest pdf file after every compilation.
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|0:34
|There are pdf browers in Linux and also in windows that have this capability.
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|0:42
| Let us go through the source file and see what each command does.
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|0:47
|The first line says that this belongs to letter document class.
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|0:54
|12 point is the text size.
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|0:57
| The first component of the letter is the ‘from address’. It appears between the braces here
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|1:07
| The result of this is seen in the top right hand corner of the output file.
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|1:14
|Two consecutive slashes start a new line.
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|1:19
|If I remove the double slashes from here –
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|1:25
|save, compile using pdflatex –
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|1:37
|you can see that these two lines get merged in one line.
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|1:43
| Previously with a double slash we asked latex to split the line.
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|1:49
| Now these reverse slashes are no longer there, so latex does not know that it has to break the line there.
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|1:56
| Let me put the slashes back.
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|2:04
|Save, Compile.
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|2:08
|It is to be understood, that after every change we need to save before compilation.
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|2:15
|Let us see what happens when we give an empty address.
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|2:21
|Let me just come here,
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|2:24
|mark it,
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|2:27
|go to the end of the line, delete it, save it, compile it.
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|2:37
|You can see that the from address has disappeared from here.
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|2:44
|Note that today’s date appears automatically in American style: month, date and then year.
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|2:54
| This is obtained throught the command slash date slash today.
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|3:02
|We can prevent the automatic appearance of the date with an empty list, as we do now.
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|3:12
|Save.
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|3:17
|Compile.
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|3:18
| The date has gone.
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|3:20
| Suppose that we want to put our own date, let us enter it with date first as follows.
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|3:30
|9th July 2007, Save, Compile.
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|3:40
|Got the date.
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|3:43
| This is the date on which this tutorial was created the first time.
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|3:47
| On compiling it, we see this Indian format appearing in the output file.
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|3:53
| Let us put the address back.
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|4:02
|And the document is back to the previous state by recompiling.
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|4:08
|The signature commands argument appears at the bottom of the letter.
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|4:17
| We begin the document and then the letter.
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|4:22
|The ‘to address’ comes first. It appears in the top left hand corner of the output.
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|4:30
|I have addressed this to Mr. N. K. Sinha.
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|4:34
|The command ‘slash opening’ is used to address the recipient.
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|4:40
|You may have already noticed that all latex commands begin with a reverse slash.
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|4:48
|The text of the letter comes next.
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|4:53
| One starts a new paragraph in latex through a blank line as we show now.
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|5:00
| Let me come here. Right now this sentence starting at ‘we are’ is here.
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|5:07
| Let’s open. Let's take this to the next line.
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|5:12
| I have left a blank line. Let me save this.
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|5:17
| Compile this.
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|5:19
| You can see that this has gone to a new paragraph
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|5:25
|With a new paragraph, the letter has gone to two pages.
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|5:29
| Let us see if the font size is reduced to 10, we can bring the letter back to one page.
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|5:37
| Let me do that now
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|5:42
|Save.
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|5:48
|Compile.
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|5:49
| You can see that the whole letter has come to one page.
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|5:54
|Let me put this back to 12 pt.
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|6:00
| And let me also remove this paragraph bit.
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|6:06
|And let me compile this.
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|6:12
| Okay.
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|6:14
|I now want to explain the itemize environment which is created with a pair of begin and end itemize commands.
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|6:29
| Every piece of text that starts with a ‘slash item’ appears in a bulleted form.
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|6:37
| Can I get numbers in the place of bullets here?
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|6:41
|You just have to change the itemize into enumerate as I do now.
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|6:46
| Let me just change this to enumerate.
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|6:53
|Save it.
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|7:00
| Of course! It is always a good idea to save as often as possible.
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|7:05
| Let me compile this again.
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|7:09
|You can see that the bullets have become numbers now.
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|7:15
|In closing, I have included, ‘Yours sincerely’, which comes here.
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|7:22
|We have already talked about the signature.
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|7:26
| Finally, the command cc helps mark this letter to other recipients.
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|7:35
| I end the letter with ‘end letter’ command and then the document is completed with the ‘end document’ command.
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|7:44
|Feel free to modify the content and try them out.
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|7:48
|Until you become confident, change only one thing at a time and make sure by immediate compilation that whatever you have done is correct.
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|7:58
|Although I talked about the letter writing process in a Mac, the same source file will work in all Latex systems including those in Linux and Windows operation systems.
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|8:10
|This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
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|8:13
|Thanks for listening.
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| This is ---------------(your name) from ---------------------(Affiliation and name of the place) signing off. Good bye.
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-| This is ---------------(your name) from ---------------------(Affiliation and name of the place) signing off. Good bye.
+|This is Kannan Moudgalya from CDEEP, IIT Bombay, signing off. Good bye.
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+|
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-|Welcome to this tutorial on how to write letters using latex
+|Welcome to this tutorial on how to write letters using latex.
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-|You can see three windows:
+|You can see three windows.
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-|creation of source file, compilation to produce the pdf file and viewing it through a pdf reader.
+|creation of '''source file''', compilation to produce the pdf file and viewing it through a '''pdf reader'''.
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-|There are pdf browers in Linux and also in windows that have this capability.
+|There are pdf browsers in Linux and also in Windows that have this capability.
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-|  Let us go through the source file and see what each command does.
+|  Let us go through the '''source file''' and see what each '''command''' does.
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-|The first line says that this belongs to letter document class.
+|The first line says that this belongs to 'letter document' class.
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-|12 point is the text size.
+|'''12 point''' is the text size.
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-| The first component of the letter is the ‘from address’. It appears between the braces here
+| The first component of the letter is the ‘from address’. It appears between the braces here.
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-|save, compile using pdflatex –
+|'''save''', compile using pdflatex –
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-|Save, Compile.
+|'''Save''', Compile.
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-|It is to be understood, that after every change we need to save before compilation.
+|It is to be understood that after every change we need to '''save''' before compilation.
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-| This is obtained throught the command slash date slash today.
+| This is obtained through the command '''slash date slash today'''.
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-|The signature commands argument appears at the bottom of the letter.
+|The '''signature''' command's argument appears at the bottom of the letter.
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-| I have left a blank line. Let me save this.
+| I have left a blank line. Let me '''save''' this.
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-| You can see that this has gone to a new paragraph
+| You can see that this has gone to a new paragraph.
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-| Let us see if the font size is reduced to 10, we can bring the letter back to one page.
+| Let us see if the '''font size''' is reduced to 10, we can bring the letter back to one page.
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-| Let me do that now
+| Let me do that now.
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-| You can see that the whole letter has come to one page.
+| You can see that the whole letter has come into one page.
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-|Let me put this back to 12 pt.
+|Let me put this back to '''12 pt'''.
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-|I now want to explain the itemize environment which is created with a pair of begin and end itemize commands.
+|I now want to explain the itemize environment which is created with a pair of 'begin' and 'end itemize' '''commands'''.
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-|You just have to change the itemize into enumerate as I do now.
+|You just have to change the "itemize" into "enumerate" as I do now.
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-| Let me just change this to enumerate.
+| Let me just change this to "enumerate".
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-|Save it.
+|'''Save''' it.
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-|In closing, I have included, ‘Yours sincerely’, which comes here.
+|In closing, I have included, ‘Yours sincerely’ which comes here.
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-| Finally, the command cc helps mark this letter to other recipients.
+| Finally, the command 'cc' helps mark this letter to other recipients.
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-|Although I talked about the letter writing process in a Mac, the same source file will work in all Latex systems including those in Linux and Windows operation systems.
+|Although I talked about the letter writing process in a Mac, the same source file will work in all Latex systems including those in Linux and Windows operating systems.
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