A Very Short Introduction To Latex

For AMS 200, 2009
Dept. of Applied Math & Statistics

School of Engineering
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
A Very Short Introduction to LaTeX
What are TeX and LaTeX?
LaTeX is a typesetting systems suitable for producing
scientific and mathematical documents
LaTeX enables authors to typeset and print their work at the highest
typographical quality.
LaTeX is pronounced Lay-tech.
LaTeX uses TeX formatter as its typesetting engine.

TeX is a program written by Donald Kunth for typesetting text
and mathematical formulas
High quality

Easy to use, especially for typing mathematical formulas

Portability (Windows, Unix, Mac)

Stability and interchangeability (Office 97 Office 2000)

Most journals have their LaTeX styles (just download and
use them).

Final reason: most likely, you will be forced to use it, since
everyone else around you is using it.

Why Use LaTeX?

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Word
LaTeX
Process to Create a Document Using LaTeX
TeX input file
file.tex
DVI file
file.dvi
Out input file
file.ps or file.pdf
Run LaTeX
program
Run Device
Driver
Your source LaTeX
document
Device independent
output
> latex file.tex
> xdiv file.dvi
> dvips file.dvi
> pdflatex file.tex
Unix Commands
runs latex
previewer
creates .ps
creates .pdf directly
How to Setup LaTeX for Windows
Download and install MikTeX
http://www.miktex.org/

Install Ghostscript and Gsview
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

Install Acrobat Reader

Install Editor
WinEdt
http://www.winedt.com/
TexnicCenter
http://www.texniccenter.org/
Emacs, vi, etc.

LaTeX package
PS device driver
TeXShop
iTexMac
Texmaker

For MAC Users
How to Use LaTeX to Create Documents
Start with a skeleton document (create it by yourself, get it
from you classmates, download it from journals website)

Fill stuff (text, formula, figure, table ) into your skeleton
document

Run LaTeX to generate output and make modifications

Learn as you go
The not so short introduction to LaTeX2e
http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
Comprehensive TeX archive network
http://www.ctan.org/
Beginning LaTeX
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/LaTeX-Home.html
Google

Basic Structure of LaTeX Document
\documentclass [12pt]{article}

\usepackage {color}
\usepackage {graphicx}

\begin{document}

\end{document}
Define the types of the document
(article, book, thesis )
Preamble. Incorporate packages or
define macros here
Main body, stuff to be printed, title,
authors, abstract, sections,
references, .
Title/Author Information and Document Structure
\begin{document}

\title {A Very Simple Introduction to LaTeX}

\author {names}

\thanks{AMS UCSC}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}

\end{document}
Example Document From IEEE
Suppose you want to write a paper
for IEEE journals

Download LaTeX template from
IEEE website

http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/
authors/transjnl/index.html

Open example LaTeX file
(bare_jrnl.tex) and modify it

No need to worry about things
like margin, font,

bare_jrnl.tex
click to open it in TeXShop
Standard Environments
\begin{env_name}
stuff
\end{enc_name}

\begin{itemize}
\item The first item
\item The second item
\end{itemize}
\begin{enumerate}
\item The first item
\item The second item
\end{enumerate}
Environment name (env_name) can be
document, itemize, enumerate, tabular, etc.
How to Input Math Formulas
Use \( \) for in-line and \[ \] for displaying math formulas

Spaces inside \( \) and \[ \] are ignored. If needed, use \
to add space

Use \mbox{} for words inside math formulas

Figures
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics {name of the figure file}
\caption{Put the caption here}
\end{figure}
You can insert figures in pdf, jpg, eps, and other formats
into your document.
Multiple figures can be inserted using \subfigure
Cross Referencing
LaTeX generates numbers for Theorem, Equation, Section,
Figure and other environments automatically. You can access
them with \label and \ref
\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro}

.

In Section \ref{sec:intro}, we .
Reference and Citation
The \thebibliography environment produces a bibliography or
reference list. In the article style, this reference list is labeled
"References"; in the report style, it is labeled "Bibliography".

\begin{thebibliography} {widest-label}

\bibitem[label]{cite_key}
. . .
\end{thebibliography}

widest-label: Text that, when printed, is approximately as wide
as the widest item label produces by the \bibitem commands.
If you know you have between 10 and 99 publications, you can start
with \begin{thebibliography}[99]. Use any two digit number in the
argument, since all numerals are the same width.

If you are using customized labels, put the longest label in argument,
i.e., type \begin{thebibliography}[Longest-name]
You can also use bibTeX package to generate reference list
http://www.hep.manchester.ac.uk/u/jenny/jcwdocs/latex/bib
texbasics.html
cite_key is used to cite publication inside the document.

To cite a publication from the reference list, use the \cite
command.

The argument to \cite may be one key, or two or more
keys, separated by commas.
\begin{thebibliography} {widest-label}

\bibitem[label]{cite_key}
. . .
\end{thebibliography}

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