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Basic Level LaTeX

1. Installing MikTeX
   • Installing MikTeX on Windows
   • Writing basic LaTeX document using TeXworks editor
   • Configuring MikTeX to download missing packages
2. 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
3. What is Compiling?
   • Using an editor, open a new source file, hello.tex, add some lines and save
   • Compile using pdflatex
   • Importance of saving before compilation
   • Importance of saving frequently
   • 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
4. Letter Writing
   • Letter document class
   • From address
   • Automatic generation and format of date
   • Starting a new line with double slash
   • To address
   • Starting a new paragraph with a blank line
   • itemize environment for bullet points
   • enumerate environment for numbered points
   • Closing statement
   • Signature
   • Carbon copy
5. Report Writing
   • report style having chapter, section and subsection
   • article style having section, subsection and subsubsection
   • Automatic generation of table of contents
   • toc file to store the information that goes into the table of contents
   • Automatic numbering of section numbers
   • Appendix; its appearance in report and article style
   • exiting from LaTeX when a compilation error occurs
6. 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
7. 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
8. Tables and Figures
   • Creating tables and figures in Latex
9. Beamer
   • Creating a presentation using a Beamer
10. Bibliography
    • Creaing Bibliography in Latex
11. Inside story of Bibliography

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