LaTeX

Learners : UG/PG students, faculty and research scholars.

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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Numbering Equations
   • amsmath
   • numbering equations
   • align environment
   • nonumber command
   • labelling equations with the label command
   • cross referencing equations with the ref command
   • case dependence of variables in label command
   • taking help from stackexchange
   • learning from ltx-primer.pdf
   • typing if-else with cases command
7. Tables and Figures
   • Creating tables and figures in Latex
8. Beamer
   • Creating a presentation using a Beamer
9. Bibliography
   • Creaing Bibliography in Latex

Intermediate Level

1. Feedback diagram with Maths
   • Open the .fig file saved in the feedback control tutorial
   • Put $G(z) = \frac z{z-1}$ in the second block diagram
   • Choose the special flag
   • Save and export it as combined tex and pdf
   • Show that if "special" is not chosen, we get only text
   • Change /frac into /dfrac
   • Show that at the time of compilation, dfrac unknown error
   • Include \usepackage{amsmath} in the tex file
   • Recompile it and show that the equation is now coming properly
   • Use pdfcrop to trim the pdf file, mention Briss
2. newcommand in LaTeX
   • What is a command?
   • Different types of commands with examples
   • Defining a new command
   • Defining short commands for long repeated input.
   • Commands with parameter
   • Passing parameters to the commands defined
   • Renewcommand
   • Redefining the existing commands to the required output
3. newenvironment in LaTeX
   • What is an environment?
   • Defining a new environment
   • Defining environments with parameters
   • Renewenvironment
   • Redefining an existing environment to the required output
4. Writing Style Files in LaTeX
   • About LaTeX Styles files.
   • Writing a Style file for LaTeX.
   • Importing a Style file in LaTeX.
   • Defining a standard Style file for LaTeX.
   • newcommand in LateX.newenvironment in LaTeX.
   • RequirePackage command in LaTeX.
   • usepackage command in LaTeX.
   • Style file identification.
   • Preliminary declarations of a Style file.
   • NeedsTeXFormat.
   • ProvidesPackage.
5. Indic Language Typesetting in LaTeX
   • Typeset a document in Indic language using XeLaTeX.
   • Indic language fonts bundle.
   • Installing Indic language Fonts.
   • Installing Nirmala UI Fonts.XeLaTeX Compiler.
   • Using Fontspec package.
   • Using Polyglossia package.
   • Select language command.
   • Set default language in LaTeX.
   • Set other language in LaTeX.

Advanced Level

Contributors and Content Editors

Gaurav, Minal, Nancyvarkey, PoojaMoolya, Pravin1389