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Latest revision as of 09:46, 21 December 2019
| Time | Narration |
| 00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Report Writing in LaTeX. I am calling it “latek” and not “latex”. |
| 00:09 | My name is Kannan Moudgalya. |
| 00:13 | In this tutorial, we will learn how to write a document. |
| 00:19 | In particular, how to use ‘report’ and ‘article’ class,
How to create sections, Automate the numbering of sections, Create Table of contents and How to create the title page. |
| 00:38 | I am creating this tutorial on our less than 10,000 Rupee laptop. |
| 00:44 | And, I am using Ubuntu Linux, TeXworks and LaTeX. |
| 00:51 | You can also use TeXworks on Windows or Mac - the method is identical. |
| 00:57 | You can use LaTeX by itself, without TeXworks also. |
| 01:02 | You are welcome to use more expensive Linux computers also! |
| 01:07 | The prerequisites to learn this are the following:
Spoken tutorials that introduce LaTeX, The file ‘report dot tex’, Knowledge of the side-by-side method required to practise this tutorial. |
| 01:23 | Information on all of the above are available on our website: spoken tutorial dot org. |
| 01:32 | Let me go to the TeXworks window. |
| 01:36 | I have already opened the file report.tex. Please download this file and practise along with me. |
| 01:44 | I am using 12 point as the font size, ‘a4 paper’ and ‘article’ class. |
| 01:55 | I am using the geometry package to set margins, through the 'usepackage' command. |
| 02:02 | A reverse slash should come at the beginning of every command. |
| 02:07 | Although I will not say it explicitly, you should not forget to put the reverse slash. |
| 02:13 | Similarly, I will not explicitly mention braces, but you may have to use them. |
| 02:20 | Please reproduce exactly what is done in the video. |
| 02:25 | The usepackage command has optional parameters inside square brackets. |
| 02:31 | The name of the package is within braces. |
| 02:35 | I have set horizontal and vertical margins of 4.5 cm each. |
| 02:41 | Look at the top left hand corner of the 'TexWorks’ window. |
| 02:47 | In case 'pdfLaTeX’ is not already chosen, please select it from the pull down menu. |
| 02:55 | To the left, there is a green circle with an arrow. |
| 02:59 | Click the arrow and compile this file. |
| 03:04 | We get the file ‘report.pdf’ shown on the right hand side. |
| 03:09 | Look at the titles - section, sub-section and sub-sub-section in the output file. |
| 03:18 | These are created using identical commands given in the source file. |
| 03:23 | Observe the distinctive features of these section titles in the 'pdf' file. |
| 03:30 | The sizes of these titles are created proportionately and automatically. |
| 03:37 | Also, the section title is the largest and the sub-sub-section title is the smallest. |
| 03:45 | Irrespective of blank lines in the source file, the output remains the same. |
| 03:50 | Let me delete one line here. Compile. |
| 03:55 | There is no change here. |
| 03:57 | Let me now change the paper size to a5. |
| 04:02 | This will reduce the width of every line in the output. |
| 04:06 | Let me compile the text as we did before. |
| 04:10 | Let me magnify it by pressing control + so that you can see the output clearly. |
| 04:17 | Let me bring it to the centre. |
| 04:20 | For the rest of this tutorial, we will use the a5 paper only. You are welcome to change it to a4. |
| 04:28 | Note that I did not save the file. This is because TexWorks saves the file automatically before compilation. |
| 04:37 | Let us change the font to a smaller one of 10 point and compile. |
| 04:44 | Hey, the font size has become smaller - should we be surprised? But, proportional sizing and spacing remain the same. |
| 04:54 | Let me change the font back to 12 point. |
| 04:59 | We will now discuss another important aspect of section titles. |
| 05:04 | It is the automatic generation of section numbers. |
| 05:09 | To illustrate this further, I will add a new section called ‘Inserted section’. |
| 05:18 | On compilation, it appears here with a correct number in sequence. Thus, numbering also is automatically taken care of by LaTeX. |
| 05:29 | LaTeX creates table of contents through a file with extension “toc”. |
| 05:36 | Let me add ‘table of contents’, one word, here. |
| 05:42 | Compile. |
| 05:44 | The word ‘Contents’ appears in the output but nothing else. |
| 05:50 | Let me compile once again. |
| 05:53 | All the titles are now present in the table of contents along with page numbers. |
| 05:59 | You have to compile it the third time to get the correct page numbers. |
| 06:05 | Why three times? Please see the assignment. |
| 06:09 | Just one word, ‘table of contents’, is what is needed. |
| 06:14 | What an amazing capability in LaTeX! |
| 06:17 | This is achieved through a file with extension “toc” that LaTeX maintains. |
| 06:24 | This multi pass compilation procedure works with changes in titles as well. |
| 06:30 | Let me change the section title to ‘Modified section’. |
| 06:36 | Let me compile it. Table of Contents does not change. |
| 06:42 | Let me compile it once more and solve this problem. |
| 06:46 | Now we have a modified section here. |
| 06:49 | We will create a title for this document. Let me do it here, just before ‘begin document’. |
| 06:57 | I will create a ‘title’, ‘Author’ information and the ‘date’ as follows. |
| 07:13 | So, I have added these three commands. |
| 07:17 | Order in which these come or the place where they come does not matter. |
| 07:22 | But they should come before the begin document command. |
| 07:26 | Don’t forget the reverse slash in all the commands. |
| 07:31 | Double slash here means the next line. We compile it. |
| 07:38 | There are no changes in the ‘pdf’ file. |
| 07:42 | The reason is that I have not told LaTeX what to do with this information. |
| 07:47 | So, I add the ‘make title’ command, one word, just after the 'begin document'. |
| 07:55 | Let me compile it. |
| 07:58 | The title appears in the output, at the place where I put this command |
| 08:03 | namely, at the beginning of the document. |
| 08:07 | We will now change the class of this document from article to report. |
| 08:15 | Simultaneously, we define a chapter with this command: 'Chapter First Chapter'. |
| 08:24 | Report style requires at least one chapter. |
| 08:27 | Let us compile it and see the output. |
| 08:31 | Notice the changes in the output. |
| 08:35 | Title appears on a whole page that has no number. |
| 08:40 | Contents also appear on an entire page, with page number 1. |
| 08:47 | Please pause here and find out how many entries in 'Contents' are wrong. |
| 08:54 | Let us go to the next page. Notice the way the chapter begins. |
| 09:00 | How many distinguishing features can you identify? You should find at least five. |
| 09:08 | Let us compile it for the second time. |
| 09:12 | Observe that the Contents page now has the correct information. The page numbers are correct now. |
| 09:21 | Let us add a chapter, called ‘New Chapter’. |
| 09:32 | Compile it. |
| 09:34 | Let me compile once again and see it coming on a new page. |
| 09:47 | Insert the command appendix before this new chapter. |
| 09:53 | On compilation, you see the word “Appendix” appearing. |
| 09:59 | The chapter number is A. |
| 10:02 | Let us go to the slides now. |
| 10:05 | Let us summarize what we learnt in this tutorial. |
| 10:08 | Writing a document in LaTeX,
Automatically creating chapter and section titles, Automatic numbering, Table of contents and title page creation, Creating Appendix. |
| 10:21 | Let me give some assignments. |
| 10:24 | This assignment is on a4 paper and letter paper. |
| 10:29 | Please pause the video, read the slide and do the assignment. |
| 10:35 | This assignment is on font size. |
| 10:41 | This is on report dot toc. |
| 10:47 | This is on number of compilations. |
| 10:52 | This is on the location of Table of Contents. |
| 10:59 | This assignment is on the use of the 'chapter' command in 'report' and 'article'. |
| 11:07 | This assignment is on the effect of the 'appendix' command in the 'report' class. |
| 11:15 | This is the same as the previous assignment, but in the 'article' class. |
| 11:22 | This is on the geometry package. |
| 11:27 | This assignment is on LaTeX classes, in general. |
| 11:34 | With this, we have come to the end of this tutorial. |
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