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00:01 | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Mathematical Typesetting in LaTeX. |
00:06 | My name is Kannan Moudgalya. |
00:08 | A reminder: we should call it LaTeX and not latex. |
00:15 | In this tutorial, we will learn how to create mathematical symbols in LaTeX. |
00:20 | In particular, How to get into and leave from the mathematical mode the role of spaces and creating them Mathematical symbols |
00:31 | Finally, A M S math package and its use in creating matrices |
00:37 | I am creating this tutorial on our less than 10,000 Rupee laptop. |
00:43 | I am using Ubuntu, TeXworks, and LaTeX. |
00:46 | The prerequisites are the following Basic spoken tutorials on LaTeX. |
00:53 | Exposure to the side-by-side tutorial. |
00:56 | All are available from our website. |
01:00 | I shall use the file maths.tex |
01:04 | It is available as a code file, in our web page, where you found this tutorial |
01:10 | In the same location, you will find this pdf file from the TeX user group, India |
01:17 | We shall use it when we do assignments |
01:20 | Let me go to the ‘TeXworks’ window. |
01:23 | Go to TeXworks, opened in 600x400, with maths.tex read in |
01:25 | I have already opened the file maths.tex. |
01:27 | Please download this file and practise along with me. |
01:32 | We have already seen the commands that are at the top of this file. |
01:36 | This command removes the paragraph indent. |
01:42 | We will study the effect of this statement through an assignment. |
01:46 | Let us start with Greek symbols that are used in mathematics. |
01:52 | We use dollar sign to get into mathematical mode in LaTeX. |
01:56 | Let us begin with alpha We write $ back slash alpha $. |
02:06 | Let us compile and see that we get the Greek letter alpha in the pdf. |
02:14 | The first dollar says that we are getting into the mathematical mode. |
02:20 | The second dollar says that we are leaving this mode. |
02:24 | From now on, I will not explicitly mention dollar or the back slash. |
02:29 | But you have to do exactly what you see on the screen. |
02:34 | Similarly we write beta, gamma, and delta. That is compile |
02:50 | I did not save the tex file, as TeXworks does it automatically. |
02:56 | Let us delete these. |
03:00 | We will next take up the concept of spaces in mathematical expressions. |
03:05 | How do we generate alpha a? That is, the product of alpha and a Let us try alpha a. |
03:17 | Let me compile. |
03:21 | LaTeX complains that alpha a is an undefined control sequence. |
03:27 | It says that it does not understand this command let me close this. |
03:34 | LaTeX handles this through a space after every command. |
03:39 | Let us leave a space after alpha. |
03:44 | Let us abort the compilation let us recompile this has solved the problem. |
03:52 | As it is used to terminate a command, the space does not appear in pdf. |
03:57 | What do we do if we WANT to introduce spaces in the output? |
04:03 | We have to explicitly tell LaTeX, as we do now. |
04:07 | Let us ask LaTeX to start a new line. |
04:11 | Let us write alpha backslash space a. |
04:17 | Compile it. |
04:20 | This has created a space. |
04:23 | If you want more space, use quad, as we do now |
04:31 | Compile it. |
04:34 | You can see that quad has left a large space. |
04:40 | We will now move to another topic. |
04:43 | Let us delete the last two lines let’s compile. |
04:50 | What happens to the font when we go from the text to the mathematical mode? |
04:56 | To understand this, let us write “Product of $\alpha and a is” Compile. |
05:07 | You can see that the font of these two a's are different. |
05:14 | This is solved by writing this 'a' also inside dollar signs |
05:25 | Make Compile. |
05:27 | Now the fonts of these of two a’s are identical. |
05:32 | Not keeping the font of variables identical is a common mistake. |
05:37 | Let’s get rid of these. |
05:40 | Let’s compile. |
05:43 | Let us now discuss a rule for creating minus signs. |
05:48 | Suppose that we want to create minus alpha and compile |
05:58 | Let’s compile. |
06:01 | Notice that the minus sign appears as a small dash here. |
06:07 | Let us also copy, with the minus sign inside the dollar sign. |
06:15 | Let us compile again. |
06:18 | See the difference in the minus sign now the second one is what we need the dash is not to be used. |
06:27 | Not putting the minus sign within dollars is a common mistake made by beginners. |
06:33 | Let us delete all of these. |
06:36 | Next we would like to explain the 'frac' command that is used to create fractions. |
06:43 | \frac a b lets compile |
06:50 | It generates 'a by b' the command 'frac' is terminated by a space it looks for two arguments. |
07:00 | The first character 'a' is taken as the first argument It becomes the numerator |
07:07 | The second character 'b' is taken as the second argument it becomes the denominator.
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07:13 | Notice that the size of a and b gets reduced automatically. |
07:19 | What do we do if we have longer characters? |
07:24 | What if we want to create ab by cd i want you to try this. |
07:31 | In LaTeX, the arguments longer than one character are enclosed by braces. |
07:36 | For example, let us put braces here. |
07:41 | When we compile THIS, we get the desired output. |
07:47 | All the entries within the braces are taken as a single argument. |
07:52 | As a result, one can enter any complicated expression within braces let us delete all of these. |
08:01 | Now we will look at subscripts and superscripts. |
08:05 | 'x' underscore 'a' creates 'x sub a'. |
08:14 | The size of 'a' gets automatically reduced to an appropriate level. |
08:19 | What if we want to put ab as the subscript? you have to use braces try it yourself. |
08:28 | Superscripts are created by the caret or the up arrow symbol. |
08:33 | For example, if you want to create 'x' to the power 3, you will write: x up arrow 3. |
08:43 | We can also put subscripts and superscripts simultaneously. |
08:48 | Let us put x sub a superscript b let’s compile. |
08:58 | Once again, using braces, we can produce complicated subscripts and superscripts let me delete this. |
09:08 | Alright, next we will move onto Matrices. |
09:12 | The package a m s math has some matrix definitions that I like let us include it through the usepackage command. |
09:26 | The ampersand, that is the 'and' symbol, is used to separate the columns leet us create a matrix now. |
09:34 | We write begin matrix a and b, end matrix don’t forget the dollar signs. |
09:44 | Compile and see the matrix, as expected. |
09:49 | Now suppose, we want to add a second row to this we put two back slashes, meaning, go to the next line. |
09:59 | Suppose that we want three entries in the second row, say, c, d, e compile it and see the second row also included now. |
10:11 | Supposing we change matrix to pmatrix, at begin and end. |
10:17 | Compile and get this. |
10:21 | It is now time for YOU to start exploring let us go to the slides now. |
10:28 | Let us summarise what we learnt in this tutorial entering and leaving the mathematical mode using spaces and creating them |
10:37 | Fractions, subscripts and superscripts defining an argument with in braces amsmath package to create matrices |
10:48 | Let me give some assignments. |
10:51 | This assignment is on spaces - large and small please pause the video, read the slide and do the assignment. |
11:01 | This assignment is on fractions using braces this assignment is on subscripts and superscripts. |
11:11 | Through this assignment, we shall learn a few more methods to create matrices. |
11:16 | This assignment is on creating more mathematical symbols this is based on the TUG India LaTeX guide. |
11:26 | Let us see that document now. |
11:28 | I already asked you to download this document from our web page. |
11:34 | You will reproduce some symbols given in this document. |
11:39 | You will try out more symbols through in the next assignment. |
11:43 | This assignment is also based on the TUG India document. |
11:48 | You will experiment with the paragraph indent in this assignment. |
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