An Introduction to LATEX

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1 An Introduction to L A TEX Hands-on workshop University at Buffalo INFORMS Student Chapter October 26, 2016

2 Agenda Motivation & Intro to LATEX 1 Motivation & Intro to L A TEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started 2 Applications of L A TEX L A TEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers L A TEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes

3 Motivation Introduction Getting Started 1 Motivation & Intro to L A TEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started 2 Applications of L A TEX L A TEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers L A TEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes

4 Why L A TEX? Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Advantages: Free and universal[1] Focus on your content Easy to cite and reference Produce universally readable PDFs Great typesetting quality

5 Why L A TEX? Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Advantages: Free and universal[1] Focus on your content Easy to cite and reference Produce universally readable PDFs Great typesetting quality Can be used to create: Articles Journal/conference papers Presentations CVs or resumes

6 Why L A TEX? Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Advantages: Free and universal[1] Focus on your content Easy to cite and reference Produce universally readable PDFs Great typesetting quality Can be used to create: Articles Journal/conference papers Presentations CVs or resumes [1] [4]

7 What is L A TEX?[9] Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Some common facts about L A TEX: A document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. Not a word processor! Encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content. L A TEXhas the following features: Typesetting journal articles, technical reports, books, and slide presentations. Control over large documents containing sectioning, cross-references, tables and figures. Typesetting of complex mathematical formulas. Advanced typesetting of mathematics with AMS-LaTeX. Automatic generation of bibliographies and indexes. Multi-lingual typesetting. Inclusion of artwork, and process or spot colour. Using PostScript or Metafont fonts.

8 Getting started Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Installing softwares would require some initial trouble-shooting (for e.g., installing packages manually) In this workshop would use an online version (so as to save time)

9 Installation Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started To install L A TEXon your computer: 1 L A TEX engine: MikTex for Windows[2] MacTex for Mac[5] More info[8]: 2 L A TEX editor: TexStudio for Windows[7] TexMaker for Mac[6] More info[10]:

10 Online versions Motivation & Intro to LATEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started Three popular online versions are[8]: and sharelatex.com - more options of journal templates (INFORMS, ASME, IEEE, etc.) available L A TEXhands-on 101: Create an account in

11 LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes 1 Motivation & Intro to L A TEX Motivation Introduction Getting Started 2 Applications of L A TEX L A TEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers L A TEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes

12 Creating your own L A TEXarticle I LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes Step 1.0: Create an article from scratch. New Project Blank Project Enter Project Name, for example: my first latex article Recompile (on top of the right box) Step 1.1: Understand the layout and contents (3 boxes/windows: project box (left), text box (middle), PDF viewer (right)) project box contains source files: Tex file(.tex), article output(.pdf), images(.eps,.jpeg,.pdf), format files(.sty,.cls,), bibliography file(.bib) text box: content and code. PDF viewer: compile the contents of text window, view as PDF.

13 Creating your own L A TEXarticle II LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes Step 2: Start hands-on!!! Important aspects of the code: 1 Preamble 2 Author and Title 3 Content 4 Bibliography

14 Creating your own L A TEXarticle III LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Preamble demo[3]: \documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article} % document type, fontsize \usepackage{fourier} % Font family \usepackage{graphicx} % Graphics & Images \usepackage{color,soul} % Color and highlighting \usepackage[round]{natbib} % Citing references, bibliography \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} % Page setting, margins \usepackage{setspace} % Spacing between lines \doublespacing % Spacing between lines \usepackage{subcaption} % Captions for subfigures and the like \usepackage{enumitem} % Enumerating \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb} % Math environments and symbols \usepackage{tabularx} % Table environments

15 Creating your own L A TEXarticle IV LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Author, Title demo[3]: \title{my First LaTeX Article} % Title \author{} % Author (there are ways to add university affiliations of authors) \date{october 2016} % Date

16 Creating your own L A TEXarticle V % Content demo[3]: LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Creating Abstract: \begin{center} {\bf Abstract} Content \end{center} % Bold, Italic, Emphasize, Highlighting, Colored text: {\bf This line is bold.} {\it This line is italicized.} \hl{this line is highlighted.} {\color{blue} This line is colored blue.} % Equations: The famous equation $ e = mcˆ2 $. % In-line equation \begin{equation} % Equation environment e = mcˆ2 \end{equation} % Sections and subsections: \section{introduction} \section{main Section Title} \subsection{subsection Title} % No subsubsubsubsections!!!

17 Creating your own L A TEXarticle VI LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Content demo continued[3]: % Inserting images: % Upload images to Sharelatex folder \begin{figure}[!htb] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width= 0.5\textwidth]{phd com1.png} \label{fig:phd} \caption{phd comics 1} \endfigure

18 Creating your own L A TEXarticle VII LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Creating tables: \begin{table}[!htb] \centering \caption{table1} \label{tab:table1} \begin{tabular}{ c l l r } \hline & A & B & C \\\hline High & 25 & 10 & 5 \\\hline Mid & 30 & 15 & 8 \\\hline Low & 35 & 20 & 10 \\\hline \hline \end{tabular} \end{table}

19 Creating your own L A TEXarticle VIII LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Labeling & Referencing (Figure and Section names): % Labeling:...\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro}......\section{Main}\label{sec:main}......\begin{equation} e = mcˆ2 \label{eqn:emc2}\end{equation}......\label{tab:table1}... % Referencing: \subsection{sub}\label{sec:sub} Figure \ref{fig:phd1} in Section \ref{sec:main} is funny. Table \ref{tab:table1} and Equation \ref{eqn:emc2} are nice. Figure \ref{fig:phd2} is great. % Inserting more figures, moving sections and figures:

20 Creating your own L A TEXarticle IX LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes % Miscellaneous: \vspace{0.5cm}, \hspace{0.5cm}, \pagebreak, \newline \section*{acknowledgment} % section not numbered % Markov diagrams, graphs, etc...:

21 Creating your own L A TEXarticle X LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes Bibliography demo: Step 1: Create a.txt file in notepad, name it demobib.txt Step 2: Get a BibTex citation (easy way: Google Scholar, hard way: check manuscript or journal) Step 3: Copy the citation to demobib.txt, save the file as demobib.bib Step 4: Upload to Sharelatex folder use citation using \cite{keyword} specify bibliographystyle () call bib file () before \end{document} Using the right bib style (unsrt, apa, ormsv080) \cite{}, \citet{}, \citep{}, and \citealp{}. Using templates: ORMS, IEEE,...

22 LATEXfor Reports, Journal Articles, Conference Papers LATEXfor Presentation, Thesis, Posters, Resumes Many interesting templates available in Sharelatex.com Presentation: Thesis: CV or Resume: Cover letter: Journal: Many more:

23 I Motivation & Intro to LATEX [1] Dr. Jeremy L. Wells. Five reasons I use Latex & you should too. accessed October 23, [2] MikTeX. Download MikTeX accessed October 23, [3] Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl. The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2ɛ, version 5.06, june accessed October 23, [4] PhD Comics. Writing your thesis. accessed October 23, [5] Tex Users Group. Downloading MacTeX accessed October 23, [6] Texmaker. Download. accessed October 23, 2016.

24 II Motivation & Intro to LATEX [7] Texstudio. Welcome to Texstudio. accessed October 23, [8] The LaTeX Project. Getting LaTeX.. accessed October 23, [9] The LaTeX Project. An introduction to LaTeX.. accessed October 23, [10] 8 Best Latex Editors. accessed October 23, 2016.

25 Final slide Motivation & Intro to LATEX Thanks to all of you. questions to: