Introduction to Unix – CS 21

Lecture 16

Lecture Overview LaTeX

History Running and creating LaTeX documents

Documents and Articles Tables Lists Fonts

Math mode

LaTeX – What Is It? A general markup language LaTeX is a system that describes

how documents should appear on paper Formatting

Margins Section Headings

Special characters

Other Examples Of Markup Languages HTML

Hypertext markup language Used to describe how web pages appear A little bit of interpretation is still

required and pages may look different on different browsers

SGML Allows for the construction of special

constructs

Where Did It Come From? TeX

1977 – Donald Knuth Low level formatting details Constructed to make mathematical

books look good LaTeX

1980’s – Leslie Lamport A layer of abstraction on top of TeX

Why Not Just Use Word? Main reason: Bugs

TeX has long had a bounty for serious bugs that no one can collect on

Secondary reason: LaTeX does what you tell it to LaTeX doesn’t try to out-think you

and put figures where it believes them to be best

O.K., How Does Latex Work? Latex works on plain text files that are

annotated with commands Commands are of the form: \

command{parameter} Example: \documentclass{article}

Document class tells LaTeX what type of document you are creating

Books have chapters, articles have sections, etc. Most common: article, book, letter, report, slides

What’s With The Braces? LaTeX uses the braces for grouping

like parenthesis { text } is the same as simply text Commands inside braces (like

changing fonts) only apply inside the braces

Example: { \sf This is in a serif font } And this is not

What Does A LaTeX File Look Like?

How Do I Get A Printable Paper Out? Usage: latex document.tex

This creates several files document.aux, document.log,

document.dvi document.idx, document.toc,

document.lof xdvi document.dvi

Views the document dvips –o document.ps document.dvi

Example LaTeX Run

What To Do When Something Goes Wrong Latex will pop up with an error message

whenever it encounters a problem Malformed or unknown command

Simplest thing to do: Simply hit return and ignore whatever command LaTeX had problems with

Alternative: type I followed by the correct command to replace the problem Example: I\end{document}

Sample Run With Problems

Example Latex File

Example Output dvi1.JPG

What Are Comments Doing In A Document? Might seem a little weird coming

from using Word LaTeX can define new commands

and can be confusing at times LaTeX is not a programming

language like perl or awk

Normal Text All paragraphs of normal text are

simply typed in without any commands.

Spacing is not taken into account, and all spaces get reduced to one space Example:

this is the same this is the same

Normal Text Example

Normal Text Output dvi2.JPG

Common Constructs Italics and Bolding Sectioning Lists Tables Footnotes Mathematical formulas

Italics And Bolding \emph{text to be emphasized} \bf

Changes the font to a bolder font

Italic And Bolding Example

Sectioning Commands

Name Level

\part -1

\chapter 0

\section 1

\subsection 2

\subsubsection 3

\paragraph 4

\subparagraph 5

Section Example

Sectioning Output

Unnumbered Sections \section{Section Name}

Always numbers the section You can change the format of

sections numbers if you’d like \section*{Section Name}

Will output an unnumbered section

Unnumbered Example

Unnumbered Output

Counters All sections have a counter

associated with them You can adjust this counter if you’d

like \addtocounter{name}{value}

You can create your own counters \newcounter{name} \setcounter{name}{value}

Counter Example

Printing Out The Current Section Numbers “The” notation Will print out the current value of

the counter associated \thechapter \thesection \thesubsection

Ordered And Unordered Lists Ordered lists are handled with the

enumerate construct \begin{enumerate} \end{enumerate}

Unordered lists are handled with the itemize construct \begin{itemize} \end{itemize}

\item

List Example

List Output

Tables Tables are handled with the

tabular environment \begin{tabular}{ FORMAT } \end{tabular}

FORMAT determines how many columns are in the table and how text is arranged

Format Specifics | represents vertical lines Specific characters tell how to

arrange text in the columns l = Left aligned c = Centered r = Right aligned

Table Internal Specifics & will separate columns \hline draws horizontal lines \\ ends a line

First Tabular Example

First Tabular Output

More Complex Tabular Example

Tabular Output

Footnotes Footnotes are handled with the \

footnote construct \footnote{This is a footnote}

Again, there is an automatic counter that keeps track of your footnotes on a section by section basis

Mathematical Constructs LaTeX was built on Tex, which was

designed for easy representation of complex mathematical formulas

A special mode for math formulas exists in LaTeX $Math mode$

Adding Accents

Accent Output

Greek Letters

Greek Letter Output

Relational Symbols

Relational Symbols Output

Various Math Symbols

Math Symbols Output

Superscripts and Subscripts In math mode:

\sp{ } ^ as a shortcut

\sb{ } _ as a shortcut

Complex Math Formula Example

Complex Math Formula Output

Vertical Skip And Horizontal Skip \vskip 0.2in \hskip 3in

When You Don’t Want Any Changes - Verbatim The verbatim environment will

attempt to print out everything exactly as it appears \begin{verbatim} \end{verbatim}

Spacing comes out just as typed in this mode

Next Time We will look a little more at LaTeX

and examine the Make utility Quiz # 3 will be next Tuesday

(March 8)