LATEX Lecture 7 PDF

Dr. Christina Gamal Lecture 7 An Introduction to LATEX  what is LATEX?  Why LATEX?  HOW does LATEX Work?  Required Software.  Writing your first LATEX on TexStudio  Typesetting text  Typesetting mathematics  Using packages  Latex is a document preparation system for high-quality ty...

Dr. Christina Gamal Lecture 7 An Introduction to LATEX  what is LATEX?  Why LATEX?  HOW does LATEX Work?  Required Software.  Writing your first LATEX on TexStudio  Typesetting text  Typesetting mathematics  Using packages  Latex is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.  Latex encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concrete on getting the right content. ‘what it is’, not ‘how it looks’  Latex is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.  Latex encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concrete on getting the right content. ‘what it is’, not ‘how it looks’  Small files  Cross-platform compatibility  Easy to make templates  Free  You write your document in plain text with commands that describe its structure and meaning  The latex program processes your text and commands to produce a beautifully formatted document   Web-based:  using your PC:  Overleaf  Compiler: MIKTex (install first!)  Editor: TeXStudio  Latex file begin with \documentclass{class}  Write the type of class such as: article, report, book  Type your text between \begin{document} and \end{document}.  Commands start with a backslash \.  Every document starts with a \documentclass{class} command  The argument in curly braces {} indicates the type of document such as: article, report, book  A percent sign % starts a comment  Type your text between \begin{document} and \end{document}.  Words in latex are separated by one or more spaces. Spaces, more than one space, in the source file is collapsed in the output.  Paragraphs are separated by one or more blank lines.   Two backslash \\ to enter a new line.  Use symbol ~ to make spaces between words  Some common characters have special meanings in LATEX  To write them in the output, you have to preceding them with a backslash \.  To write braces {} in latex, you have to preceding them with a backslash \.  Quotation marks: use a backtick ` on the left and an apostrophe ´ on the right.   To make the text bold, italic or underline, you have to select the text then click on the B, I or U icons. Bold Italic Underline  The dollar signs $ are use them to mark mathematics in the text.  Always use dollar signs in pairs $ $ one to begin the mathematics, and one to end it.  To make ‘three dots’ use command \ldots  use caret ˆ for superscripts and underscore _ for subscripts.  Use curly braces {} to group superscripts and subscripts.  There are commands for Greek letters and common notation.  Equations could be displayed on its own line using \beginequation and \endequation.  Be careful: LATEX mostly ignores your spaces in mathematics, but it can’t handle blank lines in equations — don’t put blank lines in your mathematics.  To refer to equation in the text, use command \label{} inside the equation and the command \ref{} in the text.  The \begin and \end commands are used to create many different environments.  The itemize and enumerate environments generate lists.  Sections in LaTeX are generated using the following commands that are defined in the native article document class:  To get an unnumbered section, subsection, etc. add an asterisk (*) at the end of the command, before the opening curly brace.  All of the commands and environments we’ve used so far are built into LATEX.  Packages are libraries of extra commands and environments. There are thousands of freely available packages.  We have to load each of the packages we want to use with a \usepackage command in the preamble.  Example: amsmath from the American Mathematical Society.  The amsmath package provides unnumbered equations by using equation*.  The amsmath package provides align a sequence of equations at the equals sign with the align* environment.  An ampersand ‘&’ separates the left column (before the =) from the right column (after the =).  A double \\ starts a new line.