Latex : Document Prepration and
Presentation
TEX : TEX is a typesetting program that was invented for the
creation of books ,especially for books that contain a lot of
mathematics.
TEX is both a language and a program. Thus, it is a
typesetting system.
LATEX is an easy-to-use version of TEX.
● WHY LATEX ?
● TO INSTALL LATEX
-Download Texstudio and MikTex
LINK : https://www.texstudio.org
-Overleaf : Online LaTex editor
LINK : https://miktex.org/download
LATEX DOCUMENT STRUCTURE
DOCUMENT CLASS
Writing your first piece of LaTeX
1. Type the following code in the editor
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
First document. This is a simple example, with
no
extra parameters or packages included.
\end{document}
Note :
(i) Commands are preceded by the \ (backslash) symbol. Commands
are case-sensitive.
(ii) LATEX ignores most extra spaces in a file. A blank line (or lines)
tells LATEX to start a new paragraph.
(iii) The part of the file preceding the \begin{document} command is
called the preamble.
THE INPUT :
● One or more blank lines denote the end of paragraph.
● \\ - used to make new lines.
● Quotation mark – \, it is a typesetting command that causes
Latex to insert a small amount of space. EXAMPLE : ``\,`he and
`she’\,’’ .
● Dashes -
(a) for intra-word dash or hyphen put 1 dash (-) as in X-Ray
(b) for medium dash for number ranges put 2 dash like (1–2 )
(c) for punctuation dash put 3 dash (---)
● To make space after a period ( at.) a \ followed by space . ex.
Any text at et al.\ made it.
● To type some special symbol ( $ ,& , %, #, _, {}, place
\(backslash) before symbol.
● \TeX & \LaTeX are command to produce logos of these . and
also after these command to put space we must tell TeX by
typing a \(space) command.
● \dots to produce three dots (...)
● \emph command tells that text is to be emphasized. As in ex
“Here is a simple \emph{example} of emphasized text.
● \em command tells to start emphasizing text.
● To prevent line break for example in 1 to 10, chapet 3, use
~(tilde character) like { from 1 to~10, chapter~3}
● To prevent line break within certain words use \mbox command.
● \footnote{argument} - it produce footnote having the text of
footnote as its argument as in \footnote{this is example} .
● FORMULAS : A formula appearing in a middle of a sentence is
enclosed by \( ….. \) or $.....$ or \begin{math}......\end{math}
commands. As [ &x + y&] .
● In MATH subscript ans superscripts are made by ~ and ^ symbol
respectively like a_{1} and x^{2n}.
● The character { ` } produces a prime symbol.
● % is used to putting a comment in input line , after it % and all
character followed on the line are ignored.
● INPUT :
OUTPUT :
2.Environment
An environment starts with \begin{name} and ends with \end{name}
COMMAND
\begin{name}
Your content here...
...goes here...
\end{name}
- Name is name of environment like quote , math, document.
- Quote is used to produces suitable display of short quotes.
- Quotation is used to produce a display of quotations of more
than one paragraph.
-
- There are three list making environments (a) Itemize (unnumbered
/bulleted list) (b) enumerate (numbered list) (c ) description
(unnumbered definition)
3.To add basic information to your document Title, author, and
date commands
\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}
\title{My first LaTeX document}
\author{Krishna}
\date{August, 2024}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
We have now added a title, author and date to our
first \LaTeX{} document!
\end{document}
Note to typeset the title, author and date use the \maketitle
command within the body of the document.
4.To add sections and subsections
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\title{Sections and Chapters}
\author{Overleaf}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}
This is the first section.
\blindtext
\section{Second Section}
This is the second section
\blindtext
\end{document}
NOTE :
1. The \part command is used for major divisions of long
documents.
2. \document[options]{class} - option like font size ,
landscape .
3. \usepackage{blindtext] -to add some content.
4. \usepackage{latexsym} this defines commands to produce certain
special symbols.
5. To get an unnumbered chapter, section, subsection, etc. add an
asterisk (*) at the end of the command, before the opening curly
brace. EXAMPLE : \section*{Second Section}
6.The \appendix command does not produce any text; it
simply causes sectional units to be numbered
properly for an appendix.
5. To format text bold, italic , underlining
● Bold: bold text in LaTeX is typeset using the \textbf{...}
command.
● Italics: italicised text is produced using the \textit{...}
command.
● Underline: to underline text use the \underline{...}
command.
SOME OTHER POINTS :
1. \usepackage{blindtext}- To add some blind text
(\blindtext)
2. titlesec package to customize chapters, sections and subsections
style.
3. \part - it is used for major division of long documents
4. \usepackage[a5paper,margin=1in]{geometry}
5. \usepackage[a5paper,margin=top=1in, left=2in, right=0.75in,
bottom=1in]{geometry}
6. Margins for two sided page : documentclass- book ,
usepackage[a4paper, outer=1in, inner=2in]
7. \pagestyle[empty}
8. \tableofcontents
