Difference between revisions of "LaTeX"

Revision as of 16:07, 18 December 2014

You are here: Main Page >> Spoken Tutorial Processes >> LaTeX

Scripts for LaTeX

Basic Level LaTeX

1. LaTeX on Windows using TeXworks
   • Installing MikTeX on Windows
   • Writing basic LaTeX document using TeXworks editor
   • Configuring MikTeX to download missing packages
2. What is Compiling?
   • Using an editor, open a new source file, hello.tex, add the following lines and save:
   • \documentclass[12pt]{article} hello world! \end{document}
   • Compile using pdflatex hello.tex and also using pdflatex hello
   • Importance of saving before compilation
   • Importance of saving frequently
   • Screen arrangement to viewing three activities: editing, compiling and viewing the output
   • View the compiled file using a browser that shows the latest changes
   • Change the file, compile and demonstrate how the pdf file shows the changes
   • Why LaTeX is important
   • Summary of spoken tutorials available on LaTeX
   • Where to get more help
3. Letter Writing
   • Letter document class
   • 12pt and 11pt and 10pt font size
   • From address appearing in top right hand corner - remove and put it back
   • Automatic generation and format of date
   • Starting a new line with double slash
   • To address
   • Opening statement
   • Starting a new paragraph with a blank line
   • itemize environment for bullet points
   • enumerate environment for numbered points
   • Closing statement
   • Signature
   • Carbon copy
4. Report Writing
   • report style having chapter, section and subsection
   • article style having section, subsection and subsubsection
   • Size of the above three are proportionate to each other and to the font size chosen
   • Blank lines do not change the appearance in the output
   • Automatic generation of table of contents
   • toc file to store the information that goes into the table of contents
   • Table of contents appearing in the place where tableofcontents command is given
   • Automatic numbering of section numbers
   • maketitle command to create title, author information and date
   • appendix command to create Appendix; its appearance in report and article style
   • exiting from LaTeX when a compilation error occurs
5. Mathematical Typesetting
   • $ sign to begin and end mathematical expressions
   • Creating alpha, beta, gamma and delta
   • Space being used as a terminator of symbols
   • Creating spaces in mathematical formulae
   • Difference in font of text and formula
   • Difference in the minus sign in text and in formula
   • frac command to create fractions
   • Subscripts and superscripts
   • Use of braces {} to demarcate arguments
   • Not equal to, greater than or equal to, less than or equal to, much less than
   • Right arrow, left arrow, left right arrow, up arrow
   • Integral sign, limits of an integral
   • Matrices of different rows and columns
6. Equations
   • amsmath package and align and align* environments to create equations
   • Matrix differential equation
   • aligning two equations using &, with and without intervening text
   • Automatic numbering of equations using align
   • Labeling equations with the label command
   • Cross referencing equation numbers through the ref command
   • Inserting text between two aligned equations through the intertext command
   • Automatic generation of equation numbers at run time allows insertion and removal of an equation from a set of equations
   • Labeling sections and subsections for easy and fool-proof cross referencing
   • Breaking an equation into more than one line
   • Suppression of equation numbers in the align environment using the nonumber command
   • Use of backslash (\) to make braces appear as braces
   • left[, right] and also left[. (i.e. left bracking fullstop)
   • Blank lines in the align environment is not permissible
7. Tables and Figures
   • Creating tables and figures in Latex
8. Beamer
   • Creating a presentation using a Beamer
9. Bibliography
   • Creaing Bibliography in Latex
10. Inside story of Bibliography
11. Installing MikTeX
    • Locate miktex.org, download, install
    • Go to adobe.com, download free adobe reader, install
    • Go to texniccenter.org, download TexnicCenter, install
    • Configure TexnicCenter: give the path of adobe reader, use the default path of MikTeX
    • Show TexnicCenter help, make fonts bigger
    • Load a file hello.tex and compile using CTRL SHIFT F5 and display using adobe
    • Shortcomings of adobe - after every compilation, shows the first page - difficult in case of long documents
    • This problem is overcome in pdf reader sumatra: download it from sumatra.org and install
    • Change the browser path to sumatra in TexnicCenter
    • Open pdf file with CTRL F7, show after every compilation that sumatra updates the document and stays in the current page
12. MikTeX Updates
    • Two ways to update MikTeX
    • Package repositories
    • Proxy server: address, port number
    • Authentication in proxy server: name and password
    • Browsing all known packages
    • Two ways to download and install a package: Beamer example
    • Automatic installation of missing packages
    • Compiling a beamer file

Intermediate Level

Advanced Level