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diff --git a/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst b/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst index 390f0eb..b8433a3 100644 --- a/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst +++ b/Latex/Latex2/latex_intro_script.rst @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ .. Objectives .. ---------- -.. By the end of this tutorial, you will +.. At the end of this tutorial, you will .. 1. Get acquainted to LaTeX. .. #. Know why we prefer LaTeX? @@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ .. Prerequisites .. ------------- -.. 1. Should have already installed LaTeX and its supported packages on the host machine. -.. #. Should be comfortable using a text editor of your choice. +.. 1. Installing LaTeX .. Author : Harish Badrinath < harish [at] fossee [dot] in > @@ -40,11 +39,11 @@ Hello Friends and welcome to the tutorial on introduction to LaTeX. .. L2 -{{{ Show the objectives slide }}} +{{{ Show the "Objectives" slide }}} .. R2 -.. By the end of this tutorial, you will +.. At the end of this tutorial, you will .. 1. Get acquainted to LaTeX. .. #. Know why we prefer LaTeX? @@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ Hello Friends and welcome to the tutorial on introduction to LaTeX. .. L3 -{{{ Switch to the pre-requisite slide }}} +{{{ Show the "Pre-requisite" slide }}} .. R3 @@ -68,6 +67,7 @@ LaTeX on your computer. You can do this by completing the tutorial titled .. L4 +{{{ Show the "Introduction" slide }}} .. R4 @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ technology. .. L5 +{{{ Show the "Why LaTeX?" slide }}} .. R5 @@ -97,6 +98,12 @@ Below are some of the reasons we prefer LaTeX (c) Its makes writing complex math equation extremely simple. (d) It is also a standard used widely, especially by the scientific community. +.. L6 + +{{{ Show the "Why LaTeX? ..." slide }}} + +.. R6 + We can define LaTex as a document based markup language. This sentence is deceptively simple, as it reveals a lot about LaTex. We now break this sentence up as follows @@ -107,10 +114,11 @@ element individually. This is essentially a fancy way of saying,LaTeX handles typesetting and lets you focus on content. -.. L6 +.. L7 +{{{ Show the "Advantages of using LaTeX" slide }}} -.. R6 +.. R7 Some of the advantages of using LaTeX approach to typesetting are (1) Easy availability of professionally crafted layouts. @@ -122,20 +130,22 @@ of the document. (4) Presence of lots of add-on packages. (5) It encourages creation of well structured texts. -.. L7 +.. L8 +{{{ Show the "Disadvantages of using LaTeX" slide }}} -.. R7 +.. R8 Some of the disadvantages of using LaTeX approach to typesetting is (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. -.. L8 +.. L9 +{{{ Show the "LaTeX input file format" slide }}} -.. R8 +.. R9 LaTeX input files are simple ASCII text files that are processed by a TeX processing engine. @@ -152,10 +162,11 @@ The command pdflatex is used to convert LaTeX input files directly to pdf files. The resultant PDF files can be viewed using standard tools on most platforms (Eg: evince on Gnu/Linux). PDF file are also widely supported. -.. L9 +.. L10 +{{{ Show the "Commands,Comments&Special Characters" slide }}} -.. R9 +.. R10 LaTeX, like most utilities in Linux, LaTeX is case sensitive. Commands begin with a backslash.LaTeX environments have a begin and end marker. The begin and @@ -174,10 +185,11 @@ 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. -.. L10 +.. L11 +{{{ Show the "Commands,Comments&Special Characters ..." slide }}} -.. R10 +.. R11 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 @@ -197,20 +209,21 @@ A single empty line causes a change in paragraphs in the output. (Multiple empty lines are equivalent to a single empty line.) Similarly, multiple spaces are treated as a single space. -.. L11 +.. L12 -{{{ Show slide with exercise 1 }}} +{{{ Show the "Typesetting a minimal document" slide }}} -.. R11 +.. R12 Now, we try to create a simple LaTeX document. Pause the tutorial and type the content shown on the screen in a text editor. Save the file as temp.tex -.. L12 +.. L13 {{{continue from paused state}}} +{{{ Show the "Compiling to DVI" slide }}} -.. R12 +.. R13 Now we compile the commands in the LaTeX input file that is, temp.tex into a typeset file. @@ -224,10 +237,11 @@ latex temp.tex. The output file would be temp.dvi.On Gnu/Linux use a program like xdvi to view the output file. -.. L13 +.. L14 +{{{ Show the "Compiling to PDF" slide }}} -.. R13 +.. R14 The other alternative is to create PDF files from LaTeX input files. We use the pdflatex command for this purpose. For compiling the LaTeX input @@ -241,11 +255,11 @@ view the output file. Please note that, throughout this course we shall be using pdflatex to compile our documents. -.. L14 +.. L15 -{{{ Show summary slide }}} +{{{ Show the "Summary" slide }}} -.. R14 +.. R15 This brings us to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial, we have learnt @@ -259,11 +273,11 @@ This brings us to the end of this tutorial. In this tutorial, we have learnt .. comments and special characters, spacing and actual document content. .. #. Created and compiled a very simple LaTeX document. -.. L15 +.. L16 -{{{Show self assessment questions slide}}} +{{{ Show the "Self assessment questions" slide }}} -.. R15 +.. R16 Here are some self assessment questions for you to solve @@ -274,11 +288,11 @@ using the dvips command. Verify that the two files indeed look the same. temp_1.pdf using the dvipdfm command. Verify that the two files indeed look the same. -.. L16 +.. L17 -{{{Show self assessment questions slide}}} +{{{ Show the "Self assessment questions: Solutions" slide }}} -.. R16 +.. R17 And the answers, @@ -288,11 +302,11 @@ dvips -o temp_1.ps temp.dvi 2. We can use the following command to convert temp.dvi to temp_1.pdf dvipdfm -o temp_1.pdf temp.dvi -.. L17 +.. L18 -{{{ Show the thank you slide }}} +{{{ Show the "Thank you" slide }}} -.. R17 +.. R18 Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful. Thank you! |