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1 ShortCourseOfL A T E X Lecture I LukaG.Poniatowski ½ ¾ ½ DepartmentofPhysics,FacultyofExactandNaturalSciences, Tbilisi State University ¾ AbastumaniAstrophysicalObservatory, Ilia State University August 17, 2017 L A T E X Workshop LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20171/27

2 Outline 1 L A T E X Simply Document First Compilation Different document classes 2 L A T E X environmentsandmodes Modes Environments 3 Usefulstuff Text Formatting Math Formatting 4 Extraenvironments LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20172/27

3 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20173/27

4 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20174/27

5 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20175/27

6 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20176/27

7 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20177/27

8 WhyL A T E X 1. Powerful Tool For Text Formatting Á Full text formatting control Á Piloting, Data manipulation Á Compatible with most calculation platform Á Master- slave support 2. Plane Text Editor 3. Small Memory Consumption 4. CrossplatformforthemostexistingOS 5. Best Math and Text visualization Æ Ë ½ ¼ ¼ Î Â Ë ¼ ¼ Ø Ë LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20178/27

9 HowdoesL A T E X work? Script Òbegin equation ÒoiintÒlimits ÒpartialÒOmega Òmathbf E Òcdot Òd S = Òfrac 1 Òepsilon 0 ÒiiintÒlimits ÒOmega ÒrhoÒmathbf Òd V Òend equation µ L A T E X µ Æ S º ½ ¼ V º LATEX WorkshopAugust 17, 20179/27

10 HowdoesL A T E X work? Script Òbegin equation ÒoiintÒlimits ÒpartialÒOmega Òmathbf E Òcdot Òd S = Òfrac 1 Òepsilon 0 ÒiiintÒlimits ÒOmega ÒrhoÒmathbf Òd V Òend equation µ L A T E X µ Æ S º ½ ¼ V º Donotforget! Here: Òrenewcommand*ÒdÒmathrm d wasneededtoget ËandnotS º 10/27

11 Script 1. Header \documentclass[<options>]{<class>} 2. Additional Packages \usepackage[<options>]{<package>} 3. Document Body Òbegin document document Òend document 11/27

12 Simple Document 1. Create source file simple.tex 2. Add script Á Header Á No extra packages Á Document body DIR]$ vi simple.tex... Òdocumentclass[12pt,a4paper] article Òbegin document The simplest document with text Òend document... 12/27

13 Compilation 1. Compile script file: somename.tex µ somename.dvi 2. Generate postscript: simename.dvi µ somename.ps 3. Convert to PDF: simename.ps µ somename.pdf 4. View dvi/ps/pdf DIR]$ latex simple.tex... DIR]$ dvips simple.dvi... DIR]$ ps2pdf simple.ps DIR]$ xdvi simple.dvi 13/27

14 Document classes Different classes different tools, different look Common classes: article, beamer, book 14/27

15 Document classes Different classes different tools, different look For now ARTICLE 15/27

16 Coffee Tea ßÞ Ð Break 16/27

17 L A T E X ModesI L A T E X supports:2mainmodes,2supplementarymode I Textmode Á Titles, subtitles, sections... Á Paragraphs, captions, descriptions... II Mathmode Á Mathformulas,intextentries... Á Tables,plots... III Commands Á Textsize,font,stile... Á Special characters, lines, boxes... IV Comments 17/27

18 L A T E X ModesII I Text mode- normal environment Òbegin document Text here is treated as a normal text in document body Òend document II Mathmodes-tobecalled $ expression $ Ò[ expression Ò] $$ expression $$ III Commands-tobecalled \<command> Òdots Òsmall Òit IV Comment % it treated as a comment 18/27

19 Practical use of modes 1. Edit source Òdocumentclass[12pt,a4paper] article Òbegin document This is text. This is command Òdots This is $f(y)=3 y$ math inline expression Ò[ g(x) =k x+b Ò] $$ fog=3 k x+3 b $$ %and this will not bee seen Òend document 2. Compile latex dvips ps2pdf 3. View 19/27

20 Environments Environment defines how is treated and formatted text or set of commands within there body Òbegin environment environment body Òend environment Á Equations Á Alignment Á Equ. array Á Cases Á Enumeration Á Itemization Á Tabulation Á Figures Donotforget! Some environments need special packages \usepackage{<some package>} 20/27

21 Some common environments Environment Function equation single line numbered equation eqnarray array of numbered equations multline multiple line numbered equations align specially aligned equation array cases forcases Table: Math mode environments Environment Function figure tools for formatting figures table tools for formatting tables tabular creating tables array creating arrays minipage create minipage within current page Table: Text/General mode environments 21/27

22 Text formatting Á Text sizing: \Huge \LARGE \Large \small \footnotesize \tiny Á Font style: \texit/\it \textbf/\bf \emph \underline \texttt Á Spacing: \newpage \pagebreak \\ \bigskip \medskip \vspace Á Sectioning: \part \section \subsection \subsubsection Á Titling: \title \author \date \today \maketitle Á Placing: \begin{} <center> <fleshleft> <fleshright> \end{} Á Listing: \begin{} <itemize> <enumerate> <list> \end{} \item Á Special Characters: \& \_\% \# \{ \} \S \textbackslash \textasciitilde 22/27

23 Math formatting Á Font style: \mathrm \mathbf \mathit \mathbb \mathcal \mathfrak Á Spacing: \, \: \; \quad \qquad \vspace{} Á Labeling and Referencing: \label \ref \cite Á Accents: \bar \dot \ddot \vec \tilde \hat Á Formatting: \frac{}{} \dfrac{}{} ^{} _{} \sqrt[]{} \left\right Á Greek Alphabet: \alpha \beta \Psi \gamma \Gamma \zeta \vartheta Á Relations: \pm \sim \equiv \propto \sum \int \oint \gg \ll \prime Á Special Characters: \hbar \infty \partial \Delta \nabla \square \bot \ 23/27

24 Not standard environments& commands Á Òcencle - Package cencle Á <multline> - Package asmmath Á Òoint - Package esint Á <multicols> - Package multicol Á Òcolor - Package color Á <empheq> - Package empheq Á Òincludegraphics - Package graphic 24/27

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26 Thank you! tobecontinued... fornexttime? (multiple environment use, functions, styles, bibtex, include, titlepage,practicalwork,...?) CreatedwithL A T E X 26/27

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