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authorHarish Badrinath2012-03-06 12:04:01 +0530
committerHarish Badrinath2012-03-06 12:04:01 +0530
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Fixed various errors in the Latex2,Latex3 and Latex6 scripts.
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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.