Tutorial De Latex

A LTEX tutorial 2008

Amélie Anglade QMUL IEEE Student Branch

November 27, 2008

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LaTeX tutorial 2008

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Outline
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Introduction Installation Structure of a document Equations Tables Lists Figures References Bibliography Tables of references
A Using LTEX to... A To continue with LTEX
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Outline
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Introduction Installation Structure of a document Equations Tables Lists Figures References Bibliography Tables of references
A Using LTEX to... A To continue with LTEX
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A Why using LTEX ?

Page Setting :automatic classes, styles It looks Awesome straight away! (Professional, that is) Easy to type mathematical equations and other usually tricky scientific items such as chemical formula. Handles perfectly tables, figures, bibliography, table of contents, etc. . . Adaptable to countless languages and texts (accents, alphabets). Once tamed, a real time saver (macros) Customizable

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A How does LTEX work?

Markup tags Compiled Language:
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source file: .tex output file: .pdf (or .dvi and .ps)

Sets the global layout on a finished source file, using typographical rules. Asks you to forget one’s old habits taken from WYSIWYG editors:
don’t try to modify fonts, colors, layout for a single paragraph! Aconcentrate on the content, LTEX takes charge of the layout for you!

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Introduction Installation Structure of a document Equations Tables Lists Figures References Bibliography Tables of references
A Using LTEX to... A To continue with LTEX
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Installation

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A You will need at least a LTEX compiler

A For more advanced uses of LTEX you might need to install some other packages

A To make life easier you can use a LTEX editor

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Installation

MS Windows: A 1 LTEX compiler: MiKTeXhttp://miktex.org/2.7/setup A 2 Preferred LTEX editor: Texmaker http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html 3 Advanced packages: can be installed from the option menu in MiKTeX Mac OS X: A 1 LTEX compiler: MacTeX http://www.tug.org/mactex/ A 2 Preferred LTEX editor: Texmaker 3 Advanced packages: most of them are automatically installed with MacTeX Linux (Debian, Ubuntu): A 1 LTEX compiler: TeXLive-bin A 2Preferred LTEX editor: Texmaker (other good editor: Kile) 3 Advanced packages: in TeXLive and its extensions
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Configuration

If you use Texmaker I strongly encourage you to configure the ‘Quick Build’ as follows:
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Outline
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Introduction Installation Structure of a document Equations Tables Lists Figures References Bibliography Tables of references
A Using LTEX to... A To continue with LTEX
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Basic structureof a document

\documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello World! \end{document} Let’s try to open it in Texmaker: Basic_example/basic_example.tex and to compile it: use the Quick Build button or the other buttons

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Classes
Several different default classes, extendable by modules or packages: Article...