Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide A Short Presentation on Dilip Datta Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tezpur University, Assam, India E-mail: [email protected] / datta [email protected] URL: www.tezu.ernet.in/dmech/people/ddatta.htm Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (1/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing • Bibliography with BibTEX Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing • Bibliography with BibTEX • Article preparation Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing • Bibliography with BibTEX • Article preparation • Thesis preparation Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Presentation plan • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing • Bibliography with BibTEX • Article preparation • Thesis preparation • Slide preparation Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (2/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide • Introduction to LATEX • Fonts selection • Texts formatting • Listing items • Tabbing items • Table preparation • Figure insertion • Equation writing • Bibliography with BibTEX • Article preparation • Thesis preparation • Slide preparation Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (3/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide What is LATEX? Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (4/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide What is LATEX? ◮ LATEX is a programming-based simple and easy approach for producing a document directly in the dvi or pdf format Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (4/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide What is LATEX? ◮ LATEX is a programming-based simple and easy approach for producing a document directly in the dvi or pdf format ◮ LATEX can be used for preparing letters, applications, articles, reports, publications, theses, books, or anything of that kind Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (4/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Why LATEX? Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (5/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Why LATEX? X TE LA Word processors Time and effort requirement Document complicacy and size Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (5/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Why LATEX? X TE LA Word processors Time and effort requirement Document complicacy and size ◮ Formatting of a document can be automated in LATEX Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (5/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Why LATEX? X TE LA Word processors Time and effort requirement Document complicacy and size ◮ Formatting of a document can be automated in LATEX ◮ Hence, no possibility of committing any mistake in formatting, such as in numbering and referring items (sections, tables, figures, equations, or references), in choosing size and type of fonts for different sectional units, or in preparing bibliography Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (5/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide Why LATEX? X TE LA Word processors Time and effort requirement Document complicacy and size ◮ Formatting of a document can be automated in LATEX ◮ Hence, no possibility of committing any mistake in formatting, such as in numbering and referring items (sections, tables, figures, equations, or references), in choosing size and type of fonts for different sectional units, or in preparing bibliography ◮ Provision is also there for automatically generating various lists of contents, index, and glossary Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (5/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (6/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? \documentclass[]{} . Preamble . \begin{document} . Body . \end{document} Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (6/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? \documentclass[]{} . Preamble . \begin{document} . Body . \end{document} ◮ \documentclass[fo1,fo2,...]{dtype} Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (6/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? \documentclass[]{} . Preamble . \begin{document} . Body . \end{document} ◮ \documentclass[fo1,fo2,...]{dtype} ◮ dtype: letter, article, report, or book Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (6/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? \documentclass[]{} . Preamble . \begin{document} . Body . \end{document} ◮ \documentclass[fo1,fo2,...]{dtype} ◮ dtype: letter, article, report, or book ◮ fo1, fo2, etc.: a4paper, 11pt, etc. Dilip Datta A Short Presentation on LATEX in 24 Hours (6/76) Plan Introduction Fonts Format Listing Tabbing Table Figure Equation Bibliography Article Thesis Slide How to prepare a LATEX input file? (Contd... ) Table: A simple LATEX input file and its output LATEX input Output \documentclass{article} LaTeX is a macro package \begin{document} for typesetting documents. It LaTeX is a macro package for typesetting is a language-based approach, documents. It is a language-based where LaTeX instructions are approach, where LaTeX instructions are interspersed with the text file interspersed with the text file of a of a document, say myfile.tex, document, say myfile.tex, for obtaining for obtaining the desired out- the desired output as myfile.dvi. The put as myfile.dvi. The myfile.dvi file