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What is L A T E X? L A T E X is a set of macros for producing documents A markup language, like HTML Pass around examples Jerome Fung (Manoharan Group) Introduction to LAT E X July 14, 2008 4 / 54
A Little History T E X originated with computer scientist Donald Knuth in late 1970’s Knuth wanted to explore computerized typography/typesetting Very stable; current version of T E X is 3.1415926 and approaching π Low-level typesetting; harder to work with directly L A T E X written in 1980’s by Leslie Lamport to make it easier to typeset documents with T E X Current version is L A T E X 2ε Jerome Fung (Manoharan Group) Introduction to LAT E X July 14, 2008 5 / 54
Page 1 and 2: Introduction to L A T E X Jerome Fu
Page 3: Part I: Introduction Jerome Fung (M
Page 7 and 8: Why Use L A T E X? Advantages/disad
Page 9 and 10: Hello World! in L A T E X What did
Page 11 and 12: Hello World! in L A T E X Next step
Page 13 and 14: Hello World! in L A T E X Advantage
Page 15 and 16: Comparison of Possible Workflows ps
Page 17 and 18: Examples: on seminar webpage http:/
Page 19 and 20: Comments In a L A T E X file, the p
Page 21 and 22: Additional Commands The abstract en
Page 23 and 24: Debugging Change \maketitle to \mae
Page 25 and 26: Part III: Typesetting Mathematics J
Page 27 and 28: Math Mode L A T E X distinguishes b
Page 29 and 30: Labels and References L A T E X let
Page 31 and 32: Defining New Commands Open mathexam
Page 33 and 34: Part IV: Including Figures Jerome F
Page 35 and 36: pdfL A T E X vs. L A T E X This is
Page 37 and 38: Including Graphics To deal with gra
Page 39 and 40: Figure Floats Notice how we placed
Page 41 and 42: Play Around! Several other files fo
Page 43 and 44: Installing L A T E X Easiest to dow
Page 45 and 46: Getting Additional Packages Best so
Page 47 and 48: Supplementary Topics Jerome Fung (M
Page 49 and 50: BIBT E X BIBT E X strongly recommen
Page 51 and 52: List Environments itemize enumerate
Page 53 and 54: Summary Things we’ve covered: Bas

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