This document provides an introduction to LaTeX, including why it is used, basic programming commands, and how to format text. LaTeX is a document preparation system used for publishing scientific documents and books. It allows easy insertion of mathematical formulas and modifications to large documents. Basic programming in LaTeX involves specifying document options and classes using commands like \documentclass. Text formatting in LaTeX is done using commands for fonts, coloring, sizes, lists, spacing, comments, and special characters.

1. LATEX
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2. 02INTRODUCTION WHY USE LATEX
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TYPESETTING TEXT
0403BASIC PROGRAMMING

3. INTRO TO
LATEX

4.  Used for producing professional
looking document.
 Pronounced as ‘lay-tech’ or ‘lah-tech’
 Document preparation system for
high-quality typesetting
 Uses markup commands and a type
setting program TEX
 Used for publishing reports, books,
scientific documents, etc.
 It is based on the WYSIWYM means
what you see is what you mean
LATEX:

6. WHY USE LATEX ?
 It is definitely easy to write any document in word
processor. But, writing mathematical formulas within is a
little troublesome.
 This became the main reason for the creation of Tex.
 Latex is the extension of the program Tex.
 Mathematical formulae can be easily typeset
 Modification in big docs is easy

8. BASIC
PROGRAMMING

9. BASIC PROGRAMMING
documentclass[<option-list>] {<classname>}
 Option-list:
10pt, 11pt, 12pt
 Letter paper, legal paper, a4 paper, a5 paper
 One side, two side
 Class name:
 Article
 Report
 Book
 Letter
 Slides
begin{document}
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.end {document}

11. TYPESETTING TEXT

12. FONT
EFFECTS
COLORED
TEXT
LISTS
FONT
SIZE
COMMENTS
&
SPACING
SPECIAL
CHARACTER

13. FONT EFFECTS
There are latex commands for a variety of font effects:
✓ textit→for italics
✓ textbf→ bold
✓ textsl→slanted
✓ textsc→smallcaps
✓ textrm→roman words
✓ underline→underlined words

14. FONT EFFECTS

15. COLOURING
EFFECT
✓ To put coloured text in your document you need to use package.
✓ Packages are included before the begin{document} command.
✓ Code to produces colored text is:
color {color name}text
- Text: Text you want to coloured
- color name: Red, green, blue etc.
✓ Steps:
▪ Type usepackage{color} on the line before begin{document}
▪ Type color{green}

17. COLOURING
EFFECT

18. FONT SIZES
There are latex commands for a range of font sizes:
✓ tiny
✓ scriptsize
✓ small
✓ normalsize
✓ large
✓ huge

19. FONT SIZES

20. LISTS
✓ Latex supports two types of lists:
▪ Enumerate: produces numbered lists
▪ Itemize: produces bulleted lists
✓ Each list item is defined by ‘item’
✓ Steps:
begin{enumerate}
item [your text]
begin{itemize}
item [your text]
end{itemize}
end{enumerate}

21. LISTS

22. CONT.
✓ We can use any symbol or word as a bullet.
For example:
item [+]
item [star]

23. LISTS

24. COMMENTS
COMMENTS:
✓ comments are created using %.
✓ When latex encounters a % character while
processing a .tex file, it ignores the rest of line.

25. COMMENTS

26. SPACING
SPACING:
✓ Several empty lines are treated as one empty line.
✓ Two backslashes () can be used to start a new line.
✓ If you want to add blank space in your document use vspace {}
command.
✓ For example, vspace{40pt} will add space equivalent to the height of
a 40pt font.

27. SPACING

28. SPECIAL
CHARACTER
✓ [#, $, %, ^, &] etc. are special characters that can be inserted as
characters in your document by adding a prefix backslash.
✓ For backslash use ‘textbackslash’ command
 You need to type a pair of curly brackets {} after the hat ^ and
tilde ~, otherwise these will appear as accents over the following
character. For example
“^ E” produce “Ê”.

29. SPECIAL
CHARACTER