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Latex Tutorial Part II--------- Software and typesetting tips for Latex

WutaoJoint with Abtin

Vancouver, Sept. 15, 2010


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Outline

1. Introduction . a e or an omp er

3. Drawing Tools

4. Reference Management .

6. Case Study: IEEETran.cls

. onc us on


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Introduction

Donald Knuth --------- TeX Leslie . B. Lamport --- LaTeX /leitek/

intended for the creation ofbeautiful books - and especially for

books that contain a lot ofmathematics


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Introduction

Latex ------- universal typesetting tools for. ,Physics, Engineering, Finance ..

corporations.

, , , ,Wiley, etc

published as a classic Latex Style


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Advantages of Latex

cross OS platform, ,

pdf, ps, dvi output

sp ay ev ce n epen en Portable output

fancy equations

powerful reference management layman ===== professional


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Disadvantages of Latex

Maybe hard to use at the beginning Dont support WYSIWYG (except

l x or next version Tex

Somehow low efficiency to prepare


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How LaTeX Works

LaTeX source editor + LaTeXcomp er . ex

Like C + Borland C com iler

Many LaTeX compilers


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Popular LaTeX IDE for Windows

1. MiKTeX + WinEdit p: www.m ex.org +

http://www.winedt.com/

2. MiKTeX + TeXnicCenterhttp://www.texniccenter.org/

3. TexLive2010 (also in mac, linux)

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TeXMaker, xeTeX + MiKTex etc


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mportant eatures o us ng

1. Highlight keywords . au oma c pac ages own oa

3. Auto completion

4. Keywords reminders .

6. Free of memorizing many symbols,,


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common commands

latex sample.tex ( smaple.dvi) dvipdf sample.dvi ( sample.pdf)

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pdflatex sample.tex (sample.pdf)

pspdf,dvips


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Popular LaTeX IDE for Linux

1. Kile + eTeX or encTeX or MiKTeX ase comp ng sys em

(department computer)

p: e.source orge.ne 2.TexMaker + eTeX .... etc

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

. http://www.tug.org


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LyX WYSIWYG LaTeX

http://www.lyx.org/ Like M$ Word type systems


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Example: A Minimum Setup

\documentclass[letter,10pt]{article}

\title \LaTeX Tutorial

\author{Wutao Yin}

\begin{document}

\maketitle \begin{abstract}

\end{abstract}

\section Introduction \end{document}


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Some exmaples

1. Equations Demo2.tex

2. Fi ures Demo3.tex

3. Tables. Demo4.tex

4. References Demo5.tex

5. Some advanced equations typesetting Demo6.tex

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Drawing Tools

EPS format figures vector figures Other types figures to EPS format

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EPS format figures

Matlab output so an o er

SmartDraw output

Acrobat Pro

Open Office joint with virtual printer

Metapost ( http://tug.org/metapost.html


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Other types to EPS

Virtual printer Acrobat Pro

online small tools


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Why use such reference tools?

Visualize you bibtex items Easy to maintain

bib items for you

Keep it neat in a standard format


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Mainstream Softwares

Jabref (free Linux/Windows Javaase

root> ava ar Jabref2.xxx. ar

Zotero (firefox addons)

RefWorks, OneNote (commercial)


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LaTeX Presentation Prep.

beamer.cls (classic one)

M$ PPT joint with Tex4ppt (bekerly, from for M$

M$ PPT joint with Aurora

(e.g,

htt ://www.numberem ire.com/texe uationeditor/equationeditor.php)


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An Example by Aurora and Mathtype

2 ( ) ( ) ( )

2

( )r U r E r m

r = +=


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Case study: IEEETran.cls

Go over it..


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Tutorials and Useful Links

http://tug.org.in/tutorials.html http://www.latex-project.org/

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http://elevatorlady.ca/doc/index.html(Aurora)

. . A not so short tutorial for latex


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