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@@ -119,60 +119,67 @@ At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to,
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Advantages of using \LaTeX }
\begin{itemize}
- \item Easy availablity of professional templates.
- \item Typesetting complex formulae in a convenient environment.
- \item Can start typesetting with very little effort.
- \item Presence of a lot of add-on packages.
- \item Encourages creation of well structured texts.
+ \item Easy availablity of professional templates.
+ \item Typesetting complex formulae in a convenient environment.
+ \item Can start typesetting with very little effort.
+ \item Presence of a lot of add-on packages.
+ \item Encourages creation of well structured texts.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Disadvantages of using \LaTeX }
\begin{itemize}
- \item Designing whole new layout is difficult.
+ \item Designing whole new layout is difficult.
+ \item LaTeX is not a word processor.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{\LaTeX \ input file format}
\begin{itemize}
- \item \LaTeX takes ASCII text file as input.
- \item We can compile \LaTeX files into DVI,Postscript or PDF files.
- \item \alert{Note:} \typ{latex} vs. \typ{pdflatex}
+ \item \LaTeX takes ASCII text file as input.
+ \item We can compile \LaTeX files into DVI,Postscript or PDF files.
+ \item \alert{Note:} \typ{latex} vs. \typ{pdflatex}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
-
-
\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Commands, Comments and Special Characters }
+ \frametitle{Commands,Comments\&Special Characters }
\begin{itemize}
- \item {\LaTeX} is case sensetive.
- \item Commands begin with a \typ{\\}
- \item Environments have a \typ{\\begin} and \typ{\\end}
- \item Any content after the \typ{\\end\{document\}} is ignored
+ \item {\LaTeX} is case sensetive.
+ \item Commands begin with a \typ{\\}
+ \item Environments have a \typ{\\begin} and \typ{\\end}
+ \item Any content after the \typ{\\end\{document\}} is ignored
\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}[fragile]
+ \frametitle{Commands,Comments\&Special Characters \ldots}
\begin{itemize}
- \item Anything that follows a \typ{\%} symbol till end of the line
- is a comment
- \item Special characters (\typ{\~ \# \$ \^ \& \_ \{ \}}) are escaped by a
- \typ{\\}
- \item \typ{\\} symbol is inserted using \typ{\\textbackslash}
- command
+ \item Anything that follows a \typ{\%} symbol till end of the line
+ is a comment
+ \item Special characters (\typ{\~ \# \$ \^ \& \_ \{ \}}) are escaped by a
+ \typ{\\}
+ \item \typ{\\} symbol is inserted using \typ{\\textbackslash}
+ command
+ %\item \textbackslash newline or \textbackslash \textbackslash\ is used to insert newlines.
+ \item \typ{\\newline} or \typ{\\\\} is used to insert newlines.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Typesetting a minimal document}
Write the sample code into the file \typ{temp.tex}
- \begin{verbatim}
- \documentclass{article}
- \title{My First LaTeX Document}
- \begin{document}
- Hello world!
- \end{document}
- \end{verbatim}
+ \vspace{8pt}
+ {\tiny
+ \begin{verbatim}
+ \documentclass{article}
+ \begin{document}
+ SciPy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
+ \end{document}
+ \end{verbatim}
+ }
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
@@ -185,7 +192,10 @@ At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to,
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Compiling to PDF }
\begin{center}
- \alert{pdflatex temp.tex}
+ \alert{pdflatex temp.tex}
+ \end{center}
+ \begin{center}
+ \em Note: Throughout this course, we shall use pdflatex to compile our documents.
\end{center}
\end{frame}
@@ -195,57 +205,60 @@ At the end of this tutorial, you will be able to,
In this tutorial, we have learnt,
\begin{itemize}
-\item About LaTeX.
-\item why we prefer LaTeX.
-\item about the advantages and disadvantages of typesetting documents using the LaTeX approach.
-\item A description, of a typical work flow; which uses LaTeX to typeset documents.
-\item The ability to recognize and differentiate between LaTeX commands, LaTeXcomments and special characters, spacing and actual document content.
-\item Created and compiled a very simple LaTeX document.
+ \item About LaTeX.
+ \item why we prefer LaTeX.
+ \item about the advantages and disadvantages of typesetting documents using the LaTeX approach.
+ \item A description, of a typical work flow; which uses LaTeX to typeset documents.
+ \item The ability to recognize and differentiate between LaTeX commands, LaTeXcomments and special characters, spacing and actual document content.
+ \item Created and compiled a very simple LaTeX document.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
+
+
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Evaluation}
\label{sec-9}
-
-
\begin{enumerate}
-\item Convert the temp.dvi created during the course of this tutorial to temp\_1.ps using the dvips command. Verify that the two files indeed look the same.
-\vspace{8pt}
-\item Convert the temp.dvi created during the course of this tutorial to temp\_1.pdf using the dvipdfm command. Verify that the two files indeed look the
+ \item Convert the temp.dvi created during the course of this tutorial to temp\_1.ps using the dvips command. Verify that the two files indeed look the same.
+ \vspace{8pt}
+ \item Convert the temp.dvi created during the course of this tutorial to temp\_1.pdf using the dvipdfm command. Verify that the two files indeed look the same.
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}
-
+\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Solutions}
\label{sec-10}
\begin{enumerate}
-\item We can use the following command to convert temp.dvi to temp\_1.ps\\
-\begin{center}
-dvips -o temp\_1.ps temp.dvi
-\end{center}
-\vspace{15pt}
-\item We can use the following command to convert temp.dvi to temp\_1.pdf\\
-\begin{center}
-dvipdfm \-o temp\_1.pdf temp.dvi
-\end{center}
+ \item We can use the following command to convert temp.dvi to temp\_1.ps\\
+ \begin{block}{}
+ \begin{center}
+ dvips -o temp\_1.ps temp.dvi
+ \end{center}
+ \end{block}
+ \vspace{15pt}
+ \item We can use the following command to convert temp.dvi to temp\_1.pdf\\
+ \begin{block}{}
+ \begin{center}
+ dvipdfm -o temp\_1.pdf temp.dvi
+ \end{center}
+ \end{block}
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}
+
+\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{}
\begin{center}
- \textcolor{blue}{\Large THANK YOU!}
+ \textcolor{blue}{\Large THANK YOU!}
\end{center}
\end{block}
\begin{block}{}
\begin{center}
- For more Information, visit our website\\
- \url{http://fossee.in/}
+ For more Information, visit our website\\
+ \url{http://fossee.in/}
\end{center}
\end{block}
\end{frame}
-\end{document}
-
+\end{document}