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This document is a LaTeX seminar presentation that introduces LaTeX including how to pronounce it, what it is, how to get it, how to edit documents in LaTeX, and the basics of writing documents in LaTeX such as hello world, images, drawings, tables, equations, Greek letters, resumes, and research papers.

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Welcome!

LaTeX Seminar
brought to you by
Women in Computer Science
CSGSO
presented by
Tanya L. Crenshaw
September 29th, 2004
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www
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Outline

How do you say it?

What is it?

How do you get it?

How do you edit it?

How do you write hello world?

What are the basics?


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How do you say it?
The approach to pronouncing LaTeX has its own area
of research.

Lah-tek

Lay-tek

Lay-tex
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What is it?
LaTeX is a typesetting system designed for technical
and scientic document preparaion. Leslie Lamport
created LaTeX based on Donald E. Knuths TeX
typesetting language.

0im
0<j<n
P(i, j)
p

i=1
q

j=1
r

k=1
a
ij
b
jk
c
ki
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Getting started...
There are three items you need to use LaTeX:

LaTeX itself.

An editor.

A viewer.
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How do you get it?
Google for LaTeX, and youll nd a number of websites
dedicated to this typesetting language. Here are some
websites to help you obtain LaTeX:

TeX on Mac OS X: http://www.rna.nl/tex.html

LaTex on Windows: http://www.miktex.org/


LaTeX is also available on the CSIL machines if you
arent interested in installing it on your own machine.
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Other helpful tidbits to acquire
Style les are used to import additional format, macro,
and design information into a document. Helpful styles
can be found at Professor Jeff Ericksons website:
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/ jeffe/pubs/latex.html
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Hello World
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}
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Hello World
From .tex le to .pdf le:
% latex helloworld.tex
% dvips helloworld.dvi -t letter
-o helloworld.ps helloworld.dvi
% ps2pdf helloworld.pdf
% open helloworld.pdf
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Major LaTeX Concepts

Enumerating,

Images,

Drawings,

Equations,

Tables,

Research Papers,

Resume.
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Enumeration
\begin{itemize}
\item What is it?
\item How do you get it?
\item How do you edit it?
\item How do you write hello world?
\item What are the basics?
\end{itemize}
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Enumeration
\begin{enumerate}
\item What is it?
\item How do you get it?
\item How do you edit it?
\item How do you write hello world?
\item What are the basics?
\end{enumerate}
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Images
Figure 1. This is a gure.
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Images
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{jeffe,psfig}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[h]
\centerline{\psfig{figure=figure.eps
,width=2in}}
\begin{center}
\caption{This is a figure.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
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Drawings
word
a

_
-

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Drawings
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.2in}
\begin{picture}(16,12)
\put(0,0){\framebox(16,12)[tl]{word}}
\put(4.75,6.75){a}
\put(5,7){\circle{10}}
\put(5,7){\circle{3}}
\put(12,7){\circle{5}}
\put(12,7){\vector(1,0){2.5}}
\put(12,7){\line(0,1){1}}
\put(5,5){\circle*{1}}
\put(12,5){\circle*{4}}
\end{picture}
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Drawings
`
_
2
`
_
1
`
_
3
`
_
4
`
_
_
_
`

-
?
-

?
S
c
a,b , b
a

Figure 2. Nondeterministic Finite Automaton


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Tables
Table 1. A simple test table
i E
i
1 0.02
2 0.03
3 0.04
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Tables
\begin{table}[htbp]
\caption{A simple test table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|r|c|} \hline
$i$ & $E_i$ \\ \hline
1 & 0.02 \\
2 & 0.03 \\
3 & 0.04 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
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Equations
f(x) +g(x) =
_
1 +x
2
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Equations
\[
f(x) + g(x) = \sqrt{1 + x2}
\]
or
$f(x) + g(x) = \sqrt{1 + x2}$
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Equations
_

A
C
B
y
+
N

i=1
a
i
_
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Equations
\[
\left( \sqrt{\frac{AC}{B_y}} +
\sum_{i=1}N a_i \right)
\]
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Equations
_
_
_
a b c
d e f
g h i
_
_
_
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Equations
\[
\framebox{$ \left( \begin{array}{ccc}
a & b & c \\
d & e & f \\
g & h & i \\
\end{array} \right) $}
\]
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Conditional Equations
f(x) =
_
z y if y > 0
z +y otherwise
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Conditional Equations
\[
f(x) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}
z-y & \mbox{if $y>0$} \\
z + y & \mbox{otherwise}
\end{array}
\right.
\]
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Arrays of Equations
A =
_
f(x)
g(x)
dx
=
_
_
g(x)
f(x)
_
1
dx
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Arrays of Equations
\begin{eqnarray*}
A &=& \int \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} dx \\
&=& \int \left( \frac{g(x)}{f(x)} \right) {}{-1}
\end{eqnarray*}
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Greek Letters




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Greek Letters
\[
\begin{array}{cccc}
\alpha \beta \gamma \delta \\
\Gamma \Delta \Theta \theta \\
\Lambda \epsilon \pi \rho \\
\chi \psi \omega \Phi
\end{array}
\]
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Resumes
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www/resume.pdf
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www/resume.tex
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Research Papers: Extras
\usepackage{latex8}
\begin{document}
In literature, such a goal is achieved
by having fully synchronized
mobile units \cite{Caccamo02}.
\bibliographystyle{latex8}
\bibliography{paper}
\end{document}
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Research Papers: Extras
@InProceedings{Caccamo02,
author = {M. Caccamo and
L. Y. Zhang and L. Sha and G.
Buttazzo},
title = {An Implicit
Prioritized Access Protocol
for Wireless Sensor Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings
of the IEEE Real-Time Systems
Symposium},
year = {2002},
}}
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Research Papers: Extras
% latex paper.tex
% bibtex paper
% dvips paper.dvi -t letter
-o paper.ps paper.dvi
% ps2pdf paper.pdf
% open paper.pdf
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Research Papers: Examples
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www/emsoft.pdf
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www/emsoft.tex
http://netles.uiuc.edu/tcrensha/www/emsoft.bib
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Thank you!
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