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!Time
!Narration
|-
| 00:00
| Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Report Writing using LaTeX.
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| 00:06
| Notice three windows in the screen: source file is in the editor. I am using Emacs editor.
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| 00:14
| In the terminal I compile the source file and create a pdf file. I view this pdf file in the pdf reader.
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| 00:23
| I am using a pdf reader called “skim” on Mac OS X. This reader loads the latest version of the pdf file.
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| 00:33
| When you create your documents using Latex, you need not arrange these windows in such a non-overlapping fashion.
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| 00:41
| You may also use a different editor and a different pdf reader.
|-
|00:48
| The procedure to use latex is identical in all unix system including Linux.
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| 00:53
| It could be a little bit different on Windows. Nevertheless, the source file is identical in all operating systems.
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| 01:01
| As a result, your working LaTeX source file on windows, for example, will work without any change on unix systems as well.
|-
| 01:11
| The first spoken tutorial in this series is on compiling. Which gives a brief introduction to Latex.
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| 01:19
|You may want to go through it in case you have not done that already.
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| 01:23
| I am using 12pt as the text size and article class.
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|01:30
|I have defined titles of section, sub-section and sub-sub -section.
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| 01:36
| The arguments of each of these appears in the output at appropriate places.
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| 01:44
|Observe the distinctive features of these section titles.
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| 01:49
| Irrespective of blank lines in the source file, the output remains the same.
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| 01:55
|Let me add some blank lines here.
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| 02:00
|Save. Compile. No difference.
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| 02:08
|Put the source file back to the original state. Compile.
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| 02:20
| The sizes of the titles are created proportionately and automatically. For example, the section title is the largest and the sub-sub-section title is the smallest.
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| 02:32
| These features remain the same even if I change the font size.
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| 02:36
|Let’s change it to 11pt. Save. Compile.
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| 02:46
| Although the overall size decreases, the above mentioned qualities of the titles do not change.
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|02:52
| Let me change the font back to 12pt.
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| 03:03
| A more important feature of the titles is the automatic generation of section numbers. For example, if I insert another section here.
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| 03:25
|Save. Compile.
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| 03:30
| I will create a new section in the output called ‘inserted section’, it appears here with appropriate numbers.
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| 03:39
| In summary, the spacing, size, and distinctiveness, that is the titles appear in bold etc, are automatically taken care of by Latex.
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| 03:50
| I will now explain how to create table of contents. First of all, note that there is no file called Report.toc.
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| 04:05
| Here it says that there is ‘no such file or directory’. Observe that report.tec is the source file.
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| 04:12
| Let me add this command, table of contents, one word, here. Save. Compile.
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| 04:31
| As I compile it, the word ‘contents’ appears in the output but nothing else.
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| 04:44
|We now have a file called Report.toc.
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| 04:54
| The section titles are written into this toc file. Let’s see this.
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|05:05
|Okay, let me recompile it.
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| 05:12
| All the titles are now present in the contents page along with page numbers.
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| 05:18
| Page number here is 1; it appears in the table of contents. This document has only one page.
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| 05:23
| This two time compilation procedure is applicable also to changes in titles.
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| 05:33
| Let us insert a new title here. Let me call it ‘modified section’.
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| 05:45
|Let me compile it. You can see that it has changed here but it has yet to change in contents.
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| 05:54
| Let me re-compile it a second time and solve this problem. We can also change the location of the table of contents.
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| 06:02
| Let me shift it to the end of the document. Compile it.
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| 06:18
|Now we can see that it has come to the end of the document. Let us bring the document back by shifting this to the top.
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| 06:38
| We will now create a title for the document.
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|06:44
|Let me do it here, right after the document class. Author.
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| 07:03
| I can include new lines here.
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|07:11
|Date, today’s date. And then, ‘First created on 13th July 2007’. Let me compile it.
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| 07:29
| There are no changes. The reason is that I have not told latex what to do with this information.
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| 07:35
| So I add ‘make title’ command here, just after the document.
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| 07:45
| One word at the place where I want the title to appear.
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| 07:50
| Which is at the beginning of the document. On compiling, the title appears in the output.
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| 07:58
|We will now change the class of this document from article to report. So lets do that here. Let me compile it.
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| 08:14
| On compiling the title appears on a whole page. The contents starts on a new page, with page 1. This is numbered as page 1.
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| 08:33
| In other words, the title page has no number. We also see the section title has a zero in its number.

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| 08:44
| The report class requires chapters as we have not defined any chapters the default value of zero is used.
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| 08:52
| The sub-sub section, no longer has a number associated with it.
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|09:01
|The contents information is not correct, they still carry the old numbers.
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| 09:07
| We solve this problem by recompilation. Now we have the new numbers.
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|09:13
| Let us start a chapter now.
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| 09:25
| ‘First chapter’ we call it. Let us compile it twice. The contents did not change but the other things are missing.
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| 09:40
| The reason is that the chapter command starts a new page.
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|09:48
|Let us go to the next page and confirm it.
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| 09:52

| See also the explicit appearance of the word ‘chapter’ on the new page.
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|09:58

| See it here. Let me come back here.
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| 10:04
| Let me compile it. Once more you can see that the new chapter information comes in the contents.
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| 10:14
| If you want to add appendixes, insert the command ‘appendix’.
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|10:23
|Appendix, and let me start a chapter in the appendix.
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| 10:37
| ‘First chapter in the appendix’. Let me compile it twice.
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|10:47
| You can see that the first chapter has come here.
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| 10:51
| Let’s go and see what it looks like.
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| 11:00
| Appendix A has moved to a new page.
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|11:05
|And you can see the number of pages as gone to 4.
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| 11:10
| And you also have this word ‘appendix’ appearing here. Let us add one more chapter. Let me compile it.
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| 11:27
| You can see the page number has become 5. It is on a new page. Let us go the beginning of this.

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| 11:38
| IF I compile it second time, the contents become correct.
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| 11:49
| What happens if we want to change the report class back to article.
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|11:53
|We go here. Lets compile it.
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| 12:09
| On compiling, the latex complains that there is something wrong.
|-
|12:19
|Okay, there are two ways to handle when latex stops like this.
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| 12:24
| The first way to exit by typing ‘X’.
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|12:32
|The pdf file will normally have all the previous pages, but in this particular case it says that there are no pages of output.
|-
| 12:40
| One can immediately go to the source file, modify the problems and proceed.
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|12:48
|It is easy to locate the errors if the beginner compiles frequently.
|-
| 12:56
| Any mistake will be caught immediately. Sometimes when latex pauses because of mistakes, I end the document then and there.
|-
| 13:06
| Of course also close all the open environments and try to locate and fix the mistake.
|-
| 13:12
| As latex does not worry about the material that comes after the end document command, no need to change that part.
|-
| 13:20
| Once the error is corrected, the intermediate ‘end document’ command under close environment commands can be removed.
|-
| 13:28
| When latex pauses sighting an error, we can also ask it to ignore and to proceed.
|-
|13:44
|This is done by pressing the return or enter key.
|-
| 13:48
| As I did just now. Now what happens is, we have two pages.
|-
|13:59
|Go to the first page, we have all messed up information.
|-
| 14:07
| What we can do to correct this mistake is – the mistake is that it is having the chapter here.
|-
|14:16
|Let us remove this.
|-
| 14:22
| Let’s compile it. Okay, let’s do it again. Let’s compile it a second time.
|-
| 14:33
| It complains, but it keeps complaining but there is something called chapter and it is in the table of contents and in the appendix.
|-
| 14:47
| So let us get rid of this also. Lets compile it.
|-
|14:56
|Okay. Now it goes thru without any problems and the entire document has come in one page.
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|15:05
| And the content information also is correct.
|-
| 15:15
| Feel free to change the source file, for example, you may want to add new sections, new sub-sections in the main text, and also in the appendix, also in the report style.
|-
| 15:26
| Try out the commands explained in this tutorial until you become confident keep trying.
|-
| 15:34
| Ensure that your recent changes are acceptable by immediate compilation after every change.
|-
|15:40
| Most beginners, who forget this rule, get into a lot of difficulties.
|-
| 15:45
| Please note that the way the source file appears in Emacs – color, size of titles etc are immaterial as far as the latex engine is concerned.
|-
| 15:57
| What Latex wants is that the source file be correct and not how it is created.
|-
| 16:04
| This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Thanks for joining. This is Kannan Moudgalya from CDEEP, IIT Bombay signing off. Good bye.

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+| What happens if we want to change the 'report' class back to 'article'?
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-| Any mistake will be caught immediately. Sometimes when latex pauses because of mistakes, I end the document then and there.
+| any mistake will be caught immediately. Sometimes when latex pauses because of mistakes, I end the document then and there.
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-| Of course also close all the open environments and try to locate and fix the mistake.
+| Of course, also close all the open environments and try to locate and fix the mistake.
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-| It complains, but it keeps complaining but there is something called chapter and it is in the table of contents and in the appendix.
+| It complains, keeps complaining but there is something called chapter and it is in the table of contents and in the appendix.
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+| So, let us get rid of this also. Let's compile it.
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-| Feel free to change the source file, for example, you may want to add new sections, new sub-sections in the main text, and also in the appendix, also in the report style.
+| Feel free to change the source file, for example- you may want to add new sections, new sub-sections in the main text and also in the appendix, also in the report style.
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+| Most beginners who forget this rule, get into a lot of difficulties.
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-| Please note that the way the source file appears in Emacs – color, size of titles etc are immaterial as far as the latex engine is concerned.
+| Please note that the way the source file appears in Emacs – color, size of titles etc. are immaterial as far as the latex engine is concerned.
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-| What Latex wants is that the source file be correct and not how it is created.
+| What Latex wants is that the '''source file''' be correct and not how it is created.
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-| This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Thanks for joining. This is Kannan Moudgalya from CDEEP, IIT Bombay signing off. Good bye.
+| This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Thanks for joining. This is Kannan Moudgalya from CDEEP, IIT Bombay, signing off. Good bye.