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A Short Intro to
Marco D. SantambrogioPolitecnico di Milano
Sala Seminari @ DEIB2 Sept 2015
Ver. 1.0 @ 2/9/15Slide2
What are TeX and
LaTeX?LaTeX is a typesetting systems suitable
for producing scientific and mathematical documentsLaTeX enables authors to typeset and print their work at the highest typographical quality.LaTeX is pronounced “Lay-tech”.LaTeX uses TeX formatter as its typesetting engine.TeX is a program written by Donald Kunth for typesetting text and mathematical formulas
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Why Use LaTeX?
Designed by academics and easily accommodates academic use
.Professionally crafted predefined layouts make a document really look as if “printed.”Mathematical symbols and equations are easily integrated.Even complex structures such as footnotes, references, table of contents, and bibliographies can be generated easily.Forces author to focus on logical instead of aesthetic structure of a document.Creates more beautiful
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Process to Create a Document
Using LaTeX4
TeX input filefile.tex
DVI filefile.dvi
Out input file
file.ps or file.pdf
Run LaTeX program
Run Device Driver
Your source LaTeX document
Device independent output
> latex file.tex
> xdiv file.dvi
> dvips file.dvi
> pdflatex file.tex
Unix Commands
runs latex
previewer
creates .
ps
creates .
pdf
directly Slide5
Installing LaTeX
In WindowsMiKTeXMiKTeX is a typesetting system for the Windows.Download from
www.miktex.org for freeIt is generally recommended to install MiKTeX first, then WinEdt.WinEdtWinEdt is a text editor.WinEdt creates the source file (.tex and others).Download from www.winedt.com for free for 30 days.WinEdt costs $30.Slide6
Installing LaTeX
Other text editorsThere are other text editors.Winshell for free (http://www.winshell.de/
)Scientific WorkplaceCombination of LaTeX and Mathematics programDoes a good job of calculating and graphing, very user friendly, but expensiveIn MacTexShop Download for free http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/Includes everything!Slide7
How to Use LaTeX to Create
DocumentsStart with a skeleton document (create it by yourself
, get it from you classmates, download it from journals’ website)Fill stuff (text, formula, figure, table …) into your skeleton document Run LaTeX to generate output and make modificationsLearn as you goThe not so short introduction to LaTeX2e http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdfComprehensive TeX archive network http://www.ctan.org/
Beginning LaTeX http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/LaTeX-Home.htmlGoogle7Slide8
Basic Document Structure
\
documentclass [12pt]{article}
\usepackage {color}\usepackage {graphicx}\begin{document}\end{document}
Define the types of the document (article, book, thesis …)
Preamble. Incorporate packages or define macros here
Main body, stuff to be printed, title, authors, abstract, sections, references, ….Slide9
Basic Document Structure…
more detailsThe format of a document is pretty simple.
In the preambleDocumentclassPackagesIn the front matterTitle/authorIn the bodyContentsIn the back matterbibliographySlide10
Basic Document Structure…
more detailsThe format of a document is pretty simple.
In the preambleDocumentclassPackagesIn the front matterTitle/authorIn the bodyContentsIn the back matterbibliographySlide11
In the Preamble
You specify your document class.Document classes: letter, article, report, book, slides(beamer, prosper)\documentclass[12pt]{article}Backslash – at the beginning of text markup command
Packages: numerous packages are available\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}\usepackage{setspace}\usepackage{harvard}Slide12
In the Front Matter
\begin{document}\title{}\author{}\maketitle\begin{abstract}\end{abstract}
\pagebreakSlide13
In the Body
To begin a new section\section{}Similarly, \subsection{}, \subsubsection{}, \subsubsubsection{}LaTeX
does automatic numbering. If you don’t like it, use section*{}\emph{}, \textbf{}. \textit{}\singlespacing, \doublespacing, \onehalfspacing\centering or \begin{centering} & \end{centering}Slide14
Footnotes/Quotes/Equations
\footnote{}\begin{quote}, \end{quote}
Mathematical EquationsMath always in between $ & $Alternatively, \begin{equation} & \end{equation}$ 1+4=5 $\frac{}{}, \sqrt{}, \sum_{k=1}^{n}^{}, _{}\greek letters (e.g. \alpha or \Alpha)Slide15
Figures
You can insert figures in pdf, jpg, eps, and other
formats into your document.Multiple figures can be inserted using \subfigure15\begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics {name of the figure file} \caption{Put the caption here} \end{figure}Slide16
Cross Referencing
LaTeX generates numbers for Theorem, Equation, Section, Figure and other environments automatically. You can access them with \label and \ref
16\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro} ….In Section \ref{sec:intro}, we ….Slide17
Citations
\cite{bibtexkey}It is more convenient to create a bibliography file, called bibtex file(.bib) and use it as needed.Slide18
Bibliography by hand
\begin{thebibliography}{} \bibitem[Come95]{Come95} Comer,D. E., {\it Internetworking with TCP/IP:Principles, Protocols and Architecture},
volume 1, 3rd edition. Prentice-Hall,1995.\end{thebibliography} Slide19
Bibliography using Bibtex
Bibliography information is stored in a *.bib file, in Bibtex format.Include
chicago package\usepackage{chicago}Set referencing style\bibliographystyle{chicago}Create reference section by\bibliography{bibfile with no extension}Slide20
In the *.bib file…
@book{Come95,author=“D. E. Comer”,title={Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols and Architecture},
publisher=“Prentice-Hall”,year=1995,volume=1,edition=“Third”}Slide21
How to cite
Citing references in text\cite{cuc98} = (Cuce 1998)\citeN{cru98} = Crud (1998)\shortcite{tom98}
= (Tom, et. al. 1998)Creating Bibtex FilesUse Emacs with extensions.or copy Bibtex entries from bibliography database.Slide22
In the Back Matter
Do not forget bibliography{filename}Make sure that the bibtex file is saved in the same location where the main tex file is saved.Do not forget
\end{document}Slide23
To Do…
Install all the necessary toolsTry to write your first LaTeX docHow to create a list?How to create numbered list?How to add a table?How to organize the doc over several files (e.g. one file per chapter/section)?
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Credits
PRISM Brownbag Series, Byungwon WooDept. of Applied Math & Statistics, School of Engineering, University of California Santa CruzThomas Madsen
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QUESTIONS?
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