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Revision as of 07:35, 23 October 2014
Introduction to LaTex | |
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Date | 2014/10/23 1215-1300 |
Place | UNIK, Room 408 |
By | Iñaki Garitano |
Keywords | LaTeX |
Go back to UNIKUM
Objective
Short introduction to LaTeX for those who never use it before.
Antall Deltakere
Attender type | Antall deltakere |
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Number of Master Students | 0 |
Number of PhD Students | 0 |
Number of Postdocs | 0 |
Total | 8 |
Introduction to LaTeX
- Title
- LaTeX
- Subtitle
- First steps
- Author
- Iñaki Garitano
- Footer
- Introduction to LaTex
- Subfooter
- UNIKUM kollokvie
⌘ What is LaTeX
- LaTeX = markup language
- Syntactically easy to distinguish from the text
- We have text and we have instructions
- TeX vs LaTeX
- TeX = computer program
- Input = file with text and instructions
- Output = document with a certain style
- LaTeX = TeX + set of macros (small programs)
- Objective = make easier the life of editors
- TeX = computer program
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Introduction#What_is_TeX.3F
⌘ Why do I need LaTeX
- Used in:
- Books
- Scientific articles
- Thesis
- Presentations
- Useful for:
- Collaborative writing
- Not to struggle with formatting
- Mathematical formulas
- Bibliographic references
⌘ Drawbacks
- Needs time to learn
- What you see is not what you get
- Tables (could be a nightmare), not any more
- Positioning tables, figures, is not easy
- Needs to generate the output file, PDF
⌘ Advantages
- Flexibility and modularity
- Split the document into different files
- Reorder sections without any complication
- Concentrate in the content, not the layout
- Could be used within many editors
- Easy to create:
- Indexes
- Citations
- References
- Footnotes
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Introduction
⌘ Installation & Requirements
- Requirements
- LaTeX distribution
- Windows = MiKTeX
- OS X = MacTeX
- Linux, OS X, Windows = TeX Live
- Editor
- TeXstudio
- TeXshop
- TeXmaker
- ...
- LaTeX distribution
- Installation
- First LaTeX distribution
- Then Editor
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installation
⌘ How does it look like
- Main idea => blocks of text where an instruction will be applied
\instruction Text under instruction
\begin{instructions} Text under instruciton \end{instruction}
% Comments \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{center} Hello world! \end{center} \end{document}
- Show example
⌘ Good practices
- Documents, more than one page
- Create a .tex file for each section
- Tables => usually a nightmare
- Starting point => http://www.tablesgenerator.com
- Inkscape
- Convert bitmaps to vectorial images
- Create vectorial images
- Safe in many different formats
- Including PDF
- Good to know how LaTeX works
- Difference between DVI, PS, PDF
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics#mediaviewer/File:LaTeX_diagram.svg
⌘ Bibliography
- Starting point => BiBTeX file
- Bibliography database file
- Compile => bbl file
- If small changes are needed, like special characters
- Copy bbl content into our .tex file
- Modify the entries
- No need to compile again
⌘ Collaboration
- Divide the document into sections
- Each collaborator can work in a different section
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