LaTeX Tutorial Guide for Beginners
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This document provides an introduction and overview of LaTeX. It discusses what LaTeX is, its advantages over word processors, and how to get started using it. The document covers LaTeX document structure, basic text formatting, math mode, citations and references, and other common elements like environments. It serves as a tutorial for getting acquainted with the basics of the LaTeX markup language.
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- 1. LATEX Tutorial Jhoirene B Clemente Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 14, 2014
- 2. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 2 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 What is LATEX? 1. Latex is a document preparation system 2. Pronunciation: “LAY-tek" or “LAH-tek" (definitely not "“LAH-teks") 3. Markup language for mathematical symbols and formulas
- 3. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 3 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 WYSIWIYG Word Processors What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
- 4. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 4 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 WYSIWYG Word Processors vs Markup
- 5. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 4 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 WYSIWYG Word Processors vs Markup
- 6. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 5 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Why LATEX? I Mathematical typesetting I Superior typographic quality I Output device independence I Portability I Document longevity I Macros and other programmatic features I Formatting presets are automatic
- 7. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente 6 Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 What is bad about LATEX? I Difficulty knowing/remembering markup commands I Previewing delay I Possibility of syntax errors I Adding new fonts
- 8. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 7 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Getting Started: What you need to Install You need the following 1. LATEXDistribution: MacTeX, LaTeX, MikTeX 2. TeX Editor: notepad, gedit, TeXmaker, etc. 3. Document Previewer: Adobe Acrobat reader, Foxit, Preview
- 9. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 8 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Document Structure documentclass{article} . PREAMBLE . begin{document} . BODY . end{document}
- 10. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 8 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Document Structure documentclass{article} . PREAMBLE . begin{document} . BODY . end{document} Definition (Preamble) Consists of the overall, document-wide LaTeX formatting commands
- 11. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 8 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Document Structure documentclass{article} . PREAMBLE . begin{document} . BODY . end{document} Definition (Preamble) Consists of the overall, document-wide LaTeX formatting commands Definition (Body) Contains the text of the document and text formatting commands
- 12. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 9 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Principles 1. Spaces and line breaks are not important. A blank line starts a new paragraph, however.
- 13. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 9 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Principles 1. Spaces and line breaks are not important. A blank line starts a new paragraph, however. 2. Commands all start with backslash: documentclass
- 14. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 9 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Principles 1. Spaces and line breaks are not important. A blank line starts a new paragraph, however. 2. Commands all start with backslash: documentclass 3. Braces are used for “arguments" documentclass{article}
- 15. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 9 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Principles 1. Spaces and line breaks are not important. A blank line starts a new paragraph, however. 2. Commands all start with backslash: documentclass 3. Braces are used for “arguments" documentclass{article} 4. Brackets are used for“optional arguments": documentclass[11pt]{article}
- 16. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction 9 Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 General Principles 1. Spaces and line breaks are not important. A blank line starts a new paragraph, however. 2. Commands all start with backslash: documentclass 3. Braces are used for “arguments" documentclass{article} 4. Brackets are used for“optional arguments": documentclass[11pt]{article} 5. Commands are case sensitive. documentclass not DocumentClass
- 17. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 10 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Document Types 1. article - for short documents for publication 2. report - for longer technical documents; like articles, but has chapters 3. book - for large documents, such as books 4. letter - for writing letters 5. Beamer - for presentation slides
- 18. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 11 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Simple Article documentclass{article} begin{document} % Content end{document}
- 19. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 12 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Simple Article with Preamble Commands for specifying 1. Title 2. Author 3. Date title{LaTex Tutorial} author{Jhoirene B Clemente} date{Nov 20, 2014}
- 20. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 12 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Simple Article with Preamble Commands for specifying 1. Title 2. Author 3. Date title{LaTex Tutorial} author{Jhoirene B Clemente} date{Nov 20, 2014} To include title, author, and date in the document. We will use the command maketitle
- 21. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 13 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Environments Environment declaration begin{<environment>} .... end{<environment>}
- 22. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 13 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Environments Environment declaration begin{<environment>} .... end{<environment>} Basic Environments I document I enumerate I itemize I figure I table
- 23. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 14 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Example Environment: list with bullets Basic environments begin{itemize} item document item itemize item enumerate item figure item table end{itemize}
- 24. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 15 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Example Environment: enumerate Basic environments begin{enumerate} item document item itemize item enumerate item figure item table end{enumerate}
- 25. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 16 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Example Environment: enumerate Basic environments 1. document 2. itemize 3. enumerate 4. figure 5. table
- 26. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started 17 Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Other useful environments 1. definition 2. theorem 3. proof 4. lemma 5. claim
- 27. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types 18 Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Basic Text Formatting The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog
- 28. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types 18 Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Basic Text Formatting The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog The textbf{quick} brown textit{fox} jump over the underline{lazy} textbf{textit{dog}}
- 29. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types 19 Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Other Text Formatting Commands
- 30. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting 20 Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Math mode usepackage{amsmath} Let f be the function defined by f (x) = 3x + 7, and let a be a positive real number.
- 31. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting 20 Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Math mode usepackage{amsmath} Let f be the function defined by f (x) = 3x + 7, and let a be a positive real number.
- 32. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting 20 Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Math mode usepackage{amsmath} Let f be the function defined by f (x) = 3x + 7, and let a be a positive real number.
- 33. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting 21 Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Math mode usepackage{amsmath} cos(2) = cos2 − sin2 limx!1 exp(−x) = 0 a mod b kn+1 = n2 + k2 n − kn−1 n! k!(n−k)! = nk x a (mod b)
- 34. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode 22 Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Citation and References
- 35. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode 22 Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Citation and References
- 36. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode 23 Citation and References Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Bibfiles Collection of bibliographic entries stored in “filename.bib Figure: Sample bibfile
- 37. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References 24 Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Using Style Files
- 38. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References 25 Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Using Style Files
- 39. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References 26 Using Style Files Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 LATEXStyle File You are recommended to use the Elsevier article class elsarticle.cls http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/ contrib/elsarticle to prepare your manuscript and BibTeX (http://www.bibtex.org) to generate your bibliography. For detailed submission instructions, templates and other information on LaTeX, see http://www.elsevier.com/latex.
- 40. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 27 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Easier Option: LYX What You See Is What You Mean
- 41. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 28 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Easier Option: LYX
- 42. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 29 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Easier Option: LYX
- 43. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 30 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 TeX with Collaboration
- 44. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 31 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 TeX with Collaboration
- 45. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 32 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Must have Apps
- 46. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 33 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 Thank you for listening.
- 47. 34 LATEXTutorial JB Clemente Introduction Getting Started Document Types Typesetting Math Mode Citation and References Using Style Files 34 Other Tools References Sanggumay Residence Hall University of the Philippines Diliman Nov 13, 2014 References