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author | Harish Badrinath | 2012-03-06 12:04:01 +0530 |
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committer | Harish Badrinath | 2012-03-06 12:04:01 +0530 |
commit | 0f73a1ddad07d654cb9b0f068ea2b4c2a109b79f (patch) | |
tree | 1c50d65d9d3fad229f7793e04cb907540cd98e34 /Latex/Latex3 | |
parent | 9aa3dead6022749ef41f97bfb0d4cec2dd6ab9f5 (diff) | |
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Fixed various errors in the Latex2,Latex3 and Latex6 scripts.
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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 |