1. An Introduction to
Soumyo Dutta
soumyo.dutta@live.com
GT Library & Information Center
Graduate Library User Education Workshop
Series

2. Outline
 LaTeX advantages
 LaTeX IDE
 Parts of LaTeX document
 Examples
 Georgia Tech Thesis
 Resources
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3. Why
 LaTeX is not WYSIWYG*
◦ Manuscript/Typesetting program
 Easy to handle large documents
◦ Break-up chapters/sections into separate documents
◦ Easily handle cross-references/citations across parts
(almost impossible with Word)
 References
◦ Cite as you go
◦ Reference generated/sorted automatically
 Equations
◦ Professional look
◦ Easy to cite
◦ Easy subequations/Math type in text
 Formatting
◦ Formatting of group of text very easy to change
◦ Change paper from Style A (for a conference) to Style B
(for GT Thesis) using the same LaTeX code
* What You See Is What You Get
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4. Why
 LaTeX is not WYSIWYG*
◦ Manuscript/Typesetting program
 Easy to handle large documents
◦ Break-up chapters/sections into separate documents
◦ Easily handle cross-references/citations across parts
(almost impossible with Word)
 References
◦ Cite as you go
◦ Reference generated/sorted automatically
Word example of in text equations
 Equations
◦ Professional look
◦ Easy to cite
◦ Easy subequations/Math type in text
 Formatting
◦ Formatting of group of text very easy to change
◦ Change paper from Style A (for a conference) to Style B
(for GT Thesis) using the same LaTeX code
* What You See Is What You Get
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5. LaTeX IDE*– TeXnicCenter
Build (Ctrl + F7)
Error Bad Box
s
Output format Warning
s
View Output (F5)
* Integrated Development Environment
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6. LaTeX IDE – Installing
Packages
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7. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Document class
◦ Packages
◦ Title block
◦ Start/end code
◦ Specialized section
◦ Bibliography
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8. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Document class
[option] {type}
option: type:
• Font size • Article
• Papersize • Book
• Letter
• Report
• {.cls}
• Mandatory for all documents
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9. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as
.tex
 Document parts:
◦ Packages
[option] {type}
• After document class
• Not mandatory for all documents
• Allows you to use commands not
included with LaTeX distribution (e.g.
subfigures)
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10. Parts of LaTeX document
 File saved as style:
• .bst
.tex • Style downloaded
 Document parts: from Internet
{style} • Various citation
◦ Bibliography styles (e.g. Chicago,
IEEE, etc.)
reference file:
{reference file} • .bib
• Your citation info
• Use Jabref or by-hand
• Usually before end{document}
• Creates bibliography at that point in the document
• Not mandatory for all documents
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11. Parts of LaTeX document
 Important code characters
◦ Start/end characters
 begin{} … end{}
 {[( )]}
◦ Math text: damping sum $(C_{mq}+C_{malpha})$
◦ Commands start with
◦ Comments%
 Dividing commands (no need for start/end)
◦ chapter{}
◦ section{} subsection{} subsubsection{}
{Name of Section}
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12. Example # 1: Lists
• itemizeor enumerate
Blank line in LaTeX is not
equal to blank line in text
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13. Example # 1: Lists (Practice)
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14. Example # 2: Figures
• graphicxfor includegraphics
• subfigure for subfigure
ref{keyword}refers back to label{keyword}
~ = automatically adds space between words
• includegraphics[scaling]{location of
graphic}
• subfigure[subcaption]{figure information}
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15. Example # 2: Figures
(Practice)
 Go to:
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/about save image
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/sports save image
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16. Example # 2: Figures
(Practice)
 Go to:
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/about save image
◦ http://www.gatech.edu/sports save image
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17. Example # 3: Tables
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18. Example # 3: Tables
table and tabular
multicolumn[numcol]{format}{text}
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19. Example # 4: Equations
• amsmathfor greek
symbols, math, equations
align and &
equation and
subequation
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20. Example # 5: References
Manual entries
or
bibliography{.bib}
bibliographystyle{.bst
}
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21. Combined Practice
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22. Combined Practice
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23. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Download thesis template
◦ http://gradadmiss.gatech.edu/thesis/
templates.php (Updated August
2010)
 What’s included
◦ example-thesis.tex– main TeX file
◦ gatech-thesis.cls– class file
◦ example-thesis.bib– bibliography file
 For more information visit
◦ http://gradadmiss.gatech.edu/thesis.
php
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24. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Chapter organization
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25. Georgia Tech Thesis
 Nomenclature
◦ makeindex.exe
Sets-up TeXnicCenter to run
makeindexautomatically
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26. Georgia Tech Thesis
• Define nomenclature and nomunit
commands
Packages: nomencl
Also need ifthen to define
commands
makenomenclature
Creates nomenclature before document
Creating a new LaTeX command:
nomenclature[type]{symbol}{text}
nomunit{text}
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27. Georgia Tech Thesis
Example of usage of nomenclature
and nomunitin code and output
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28. Resources
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29. Example codes from this
class
 http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~sdutta8/latex
 Download
SDutta_Latex_Example_Code.zip
 Unzip file
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