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authorHarish Badrinath2012-03-06 12:04:01 +0530
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Fixed various errors in the Latex2,Latex3 and Latex6 scripts.
-rw-r--r--Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst21
-rw-r--r--Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst67
-rw-r--r--Latex/Latex6/latex_math_biblo_beamer_script.rst67
3 files changed, 77 insertions, 78 deletions
diff --git a/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst b/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst
index 67a4eaf..964a7b6 100644
--- a/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst
+++ b/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ of the document.
.. R8
-Some of the disadvantages of using LaTeX approach to typesetting is
+Some of the disadvantages of using LaTeX approach to typesetting are
(1) Designing a whole new layout is difficult.
(2) LaTeX is not a word processor, that is the document author is not expected
to worry about presentation details like the size of font, for example.
@@ -181,9 +181,7 @@ command and ends with an end command.
So, as expected LaTeX ignores anything that is written after the \end{document}
command. Essentially, anything written after the \end{document} command turns
-out to be a comment. But, how do we write comments with in the document. % is
-the character to indicate comments. Anything written after a % symbol in a
-line, is ignored.
+out to be a comment.
.. L11
@@ -191,11 +189,14 @@ line, is ignored.
.. R11
+But, how do we write comments with in the document. % is
+the character to indicate comments. Anything written after a % symbol in a
+line, is ignored.
But what if we wanted to insert the % symbol in the document? We can do so by
escaping it with a \ (backslash). % is one of the many special characters in
-LaTeX. The others are, ~ # $ ^ & _ { } \. All of them, except the \ itself, can
-be inserted by escaping it with a \. To insert a \ in our document, we use the
-command \textbackslash.
+LaTeX. The others are shown on the screen. All of them, except the \ itself,
+can be inserted by escaping it with a \. To insert a \ in our document, we use
+the command \textbackslash.
What would happen if we escape a \ with a \?
A double backslash is actually another command. It inserts a new line in the
@@ -234,8 +235,7 @@ file temp.tex into a DVI file, we use the following command
latex temp.tex.
-The output file would be temp.dvi.On Gnu/Linux use a program like xdvi to view
-the output file.
+The output file would be temp.dvi.
.. L14
@@ -249,9 +249,6 @@ file temp.tex into a PDF file, we use the following command
pdflatex temp.tex
-The output file would be temp.pdf.On Gnu/Linux use a program like evince to
-view the output file.
-
Please note that, throughout this course we shall be using pdflatex to compile
our documents.
diff --git a/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst b/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
index 9d8f6c6..90067c7 100644
--- a/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
+++ b/Latex/Latex3/latex_basics_and_structure_script.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The supported classes have a few differences, in how the content of the document
We now look at a hypothetical documentclass command.
The command being shown on the screen, instructs LaTeX to
Create a new document of class report. The available classes are article, proc,
-report, book, slides, letter.
+report, book, slides and letter.
12 pt: sets the font size of main font. Other are relatively adjusted. 10pt is
the default.
a4paper: specifies the paper size
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ the texdoc command for accessing package documentation.
We add the title, the author and the date to the document before the
\begin{document} directive. We compile the document to see if the details
-appear in the document, but they donot.
+appear in the document, but they do not.
.. L10
@@ -153,8 +153,10 @@ appear in the document, but they donot.
.. R10
The command \maketitle adds title, authors name and date to the output file.
-Of these only the date is optional. If date command is specified, then the given
-date is used else today's date is used.
+Of these only the date is optional. The date command can be called with an
+optional parameter. If the optional parameter is not provided, the date of
+compilation of the LaTeX document is used. The parameter, if specified is used
+to override this value.
.. L11
@@ -162,10 +164,10 @@ date is used else today's date is used.
.. R11
-The abstract command is used to insert abstract of a document, into the output
-file.Place it in the location, where you want your abstract to present in
-the document. It is available for the document classes article and report, but
-not book
+The abstract command is used to insert the abstract of a document, into the
+output file.Place it in the location, where you want your abstract to present
+in the document. It is available for the document classes article and report,
+but not for the book class.
.. L12
@@ -176,9 +178,9 @@ not book
Titles chapters and sections are used to help the user find his or her way
through your work. The following commands are available in the article class:
section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph and sub paragraph. The default
-behavior is to use numbered sections. We can use un-numbered sections appending
-* to section command. If you want to split your document without influencing the
-section or chapter numbering use the part command.
+behavior is to use numbered sections. We can use un-numbered sections by
+appending * to section command. If you want to split your document without
+influencing the section or chapter numbering, use the part command.
.. L13
@@ -196,8 +198,8 @@ file shown in the slide we notice that subsections are not numbered.
.. R14
-We can change this behavior with the command setcounter , calling it as shown
-in the slide.
+We can change this behavior with the setcounter command, calling it with
+parameters shown on the slide.
.. L15
@@ -205,12 +207,13 @@ in the slide.
.. R15
-Appendix can be added to the document using \appendix command. any content after
-\appendix will be added to the appendix. In the report or book class, we have to
-use \chapter to indicate that the chapters are to be numbered as appendices.
+Appendix can be added to the document using \appendix command. Any content
+after the \appendix command will be added to the appendix. In the report or
+book class, we have to use \chapter command to indicate that the chapters are
+to be numbered as appendices.
-similarly for the article class we have to use the section command to indicate
-that sections are to be numbered as appendices.
+Similarly for the article class, we have to use the \section command to indicate
+the sections that are to be numbered as appendices.
.. L16
@@ -218,19 +221,15 @@ that sections are to be numbered as appendices.
.. R16
-Lets add a Table of content to the document. The LaTeX command to add a TOC to a
-document is using \tableofcontents command and is placed at the point at which
-the table of content is to be placed.
-
-Now, compile the document and look at the output document. It does not have the table of contents!
-
-We compile our LaTeX file as usual. On the first compilation only the "Contents"
-heading appears in the document, but the actual table does not appear. You will
-need to compile your document once more, for the actual table to appear in your
-document. On the first run, LaTeX has gone through your document and generated
-a temporary file (.toc), with the entries that should go into the table of
-contents. These entries are made, when you compile your document for the second
-time.
+We use the \tableofcontents command to add a TOC to a document is and is placed
+at the point at which the table of content is to be placed. It must be noted
+that \tableofcontents command requires the LaTeX input file to be compiled
+twice. On the first compilation only the "Contents" heading appears in the
+document, but the actual table does not appear. LaTeX has now gone through
+the input document and generated a temporary file (.toc), with the entries that
+should go into the table of contents. When the input document is compiled for
+the second time, these entries are made and the actual table will appear in
+your output document.
Note that any section/block that has been numbered automatically appears in the
table of contents. It is possible to get un-numbered sections, for instance a
@@ -243,9 +242,9 @@ Preface or a Foreword section to appear in the Table of Contents.
.. R17
Un-numbered sections are added to TOC using \addcontentsline command.
-For example we use the command
-\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Intro}
-where "Intro" is the text that you want to appear in the Table of contents.
+For example we use the addcontentsline command called with the parameters
+"{toc}{section}{Intro}", for the text "Intro" to appear in the Table of
+contents.
.. L18
diff --git a/Latex/Latex6/latex_math_biblo_beamer_script.rst b/Latex/Latex6/latex_math_biblo_beamer_script.rst
index de88c6a..cedf88d 100644
--- a/Latex/Latex6/latex_math_biblo_beamer_script.rst
+++ b/Latex/Latex6/latex_math_biblo_beamer_script.rst
@@ -67,19 +67,20 @@ In general, it is advisable to use the AMS-LaTeX bundle to typeset mathematics
in LaTeX. AMS-LaTeX is a collection of packages and classes for mathematical
typesetting.
-We can load amsmath by issuing the \usepackage{amsmath} in the preamble.It must
+We can load amsmath by issuing the \usepackage{amsmath} in the preamble.It must
be noted that amsmath is included in the base distribution of LaTex, in atleast
the most recent versions.
-Math formulae can be embedded in two ways,
- “inline” or “text style ” method, which is done by enclosing the
- required command and text within two dollar signs or between an backslash
- opening bracket and backslash closing bracket.
+Math formulae can be embedded in one of two ways. The first is, “inline” or
+“text style ” method, which is done by enclosing the required commands and
+text within two dollar signs or between an backslash opening bracket and
+backslash closing bracket.
- By enclosing them in a dedicated environment respectively/displayed style.
+The second method is by enclosing them in a dedicated environment respectively,
+this is also called displayed style.
The most common LaTeX environment used to typeset mathematical formulae is
-from equation family.
+from the equation family.
.. L5
@@ -89,8 +90,8 @@ from equation family.
.. R5
An environment like bmatrix for example, is used to render a matrix. The syntax
-for specifying a matrix is similar to that used in the tabular environment. The
-& symbol is used for demarcating columns and \\ is used to demarcate rows.
+for specifying a matrix is similar to that used for the tabular environment.
+The & symbol is used for demarcating columns and \\ is used to demarcate rows.
There are 5 other matrix environments and each have different/no type of
delimiters. A table showing the data is being shown on the screen. The matrix
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ and its allied environments are defined by the amsmath package.
.. R6
-The screen shows the an example, that renders different types of matrices using
+The screen shows the example, that renders different types of matrices using
LaTeX.
It also shows the two ways in which mathmatical formulae can be embedded into
@@ -118,11 +119,11 @@ Please pause the tutorial and go through the example shown on the screen.
.. R7
To typeset superscripts in LaTeX, the carat character is used. The carat
-operator just acts on the next character.
+operator just acts on the immediate next character.
To typeset subscripts in LaTeX, the underscore character is used. The carat
-operator just acts on the next character.
-Multiple characters and ambiguity is resolved by grouping them using opening
-and closing curly brackets.
+operator just acts on the immediate next character.
+Multi character grouping and ambiguity is resolved by grouping them using
+opening and closing curly brackets.
.. L8
@@ -130,10 +131,10 @@ and closing curly brackets.
.. R8
-To typeset the summation symbol, use the sum command. Similarly, the integral
-symbol is obtained using the int command. The upper and lower limits, for both
-the sum and int command are specified using the carat and underscore characters
-, respectively.
+To typeset the summation symbol, we use the sum command. Similarly, the
+integral symbol is obtained using the int command.
+The upper and lower limits, for both the sum and int command are specified
+using the carat and underscore characters, respectively.
.. L9
@@ -141,12 +142,12 @@ the sum and int command are specified using the carat and underscore characters
.. R9
-We now move onto using the equation environment to render mathematical formulae,
-which are numbered. Another environment called equation star environment renders
+We now move onto using the equation environment to render mathematical formulae
+which are numbered. Another allied environment called equation star renders
unnumbered equations.
-Backslash and opening square bracket and its counterpart the backslash
-closing square bracket is a short hand for equation star environment.
+Backslash opening square bracket and its counterpart the backslash closing
+square bracket is a short hand for equation star environment.
There is no similar shorthand for equation environment (i.e, the numbered
equation environment).
@@ -174,11 +175,12 @@ ampersand symbol.
.. R11
-To typeset fractions use the frac command. To typeset surds, we use the sqrt
-command with the optional paramter of [n].
+To typeset fractions we use the frac command and to typeset surds, we use the
+sqrt command with the optional paramter of [n]. The optional parameter for the
+sqrt command is used to render roots not equal to 2.
-Please note that there is a special command dfrac, that can be used to render
-fractions as if its placed in display mode and is meant to be used even in
+Please note that there is a special command dfrac that can be used to render
+fractions, as if its placed in display mode and is meant to be used even in
inline mode.
.. L12
@@ -210,13 +212,13 @@ Each entry of the bibliography begins with the command bibitem. It takes an
optional parameter called label and a name for the entry.The label option
replaces the numbers from the auto enumeration with the labels given.
-The to cite the bibliography item within the document, we use the cite command,
+Then to cite the bibliography item within the document we use the cite command,
containing name as a parameter.
We start the bibliography environment with a numerical parameter. This defines
how much space is to be reserved for all the labels.
If for example, we have less than 10 items in the Bibliography we would begin
-the bibliography environment with an parameter, whose value is 9.
+the bibliography environment with a parameter, whose value is 9.
.. L14
@@ -226,9 +228,9 @@ the bibliography environment with an parameter, whose value is 9.
.. R14
It is highly recommended to use beamer to create presentations, especially when
-you are using LaTeX typesetting your report. This is mainly because, it would be
-really easy to reuse the LaTeX that you have used for the report/document for
-the presentation as well.
+you are using LaTeX typesetting your report. This is mainly because it would be
+really easy to reuse the LaTeX content that you have already used for the
+report/document for, the presentation as well.
We begin a beamer document with the documentclass being set to beamer.
@@ -253,7 +255,8 @@ We must also note that the title page of the presentation can be set like any
other LaTeX document.
If we have to use fragile environemts like verbatim or lstlisting inside a
-slide, then we have to pass an additional parameter to begin frame, fragile.
+slide, then we have to pass an additional parameter to begin frame, namely
+fragile.
Overlays and simple animation can be achieved using the pause command.