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Hello friends, welcome to the tutorial on 'LaTeX Installation'. 

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At the end of this tutorial you will,

1. Learn how to install LaTeX.
#. Learn how to install a TeX editor plug-in.
#. Know how to configure the TeX editor for LaTeX.
#. Know some useful information on LaTeX packages.
#. Be able to compile a TeX file to pdf.

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Before beginning this tutorial, you will need a TeX distribution, a good text
editor, DVI or PDF viewer. Also make sure to have a Linux Distribution as
Operating System on your computer & a working internet connection for 
installing LaTeX over internet.

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TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production 
system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors
of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows.

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There are multiple ways of installation. You may download a LaTeX distribution
and run the installer.
An other way is to install using the command: 'sudo apt-get install texlive'
for a subset Latex functionality or 'sudo apt-get install texlive-full' to 
install Tex Live with all the functionalities (a complete distribution).

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We may also install LaTeX using a package manager like 'Synaptic Package
Manager in Ubuntu'.
Using 'Synaptic Package Manager': Open the 'Package Manager' > Search for
'texlive-full' > Mark for installation and apply.


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We may use a Text editor (as per your choice) as LaTeX editor.
However, we require a plug-in to do this.
We would like to illustrate the same using Gedit.
Install the plug-in: 'sudo apt-get install gedit-latex-plugin'.
To activate the plug-in: Click (Edit > Preferences > Plugins >
Check LaTeX Plugin).

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Add-on features for LaTeX are known as packages. Dozens of these are
pre-installed with LaTeX and can be used in your documents immediately. 
Listed here are a few popular ones and their usage.
Latex-beamer package is used to create presentations.
TexPower package is used to create dynamic presentation online.
Prosper is a Latex class which helps writing transparencies and high quality
presentations.

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Also graphic packages like texlive-pictures are available for drawing 
graphics & texlive-latex-extra for additional add-on packages.

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A given LaTeX document may be compiled to pdf using the command:
'pdflatex filename.tex'
This produces an output file, in the pdf format.


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This brings us to the end of the tutorial. In this tutorial, we have
learnt to,

1. Install LaTeX on your computer.
#. Install/Configure TeX editor with LaTeX plug-in.
#. Choose a LaTeX packages as per requirement.
#. Compile a TeX file to pdf.

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1. How can we check the version of the LaTeX package installed ?
2. How can we check if the plug-in is properly configured with TeX editor ?

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1. Use the command latex with -v option to check the version installed
2. In the editor select the edit menu and follow the sequence:
Edit > Preferences > Plugins > Check
LaTeX Plug-in



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Software Development techniques for Engineers and Scientists - SDES, is an 
initiative by FOSSEE. For more information, please visit the given link.

Free and Open-source Software for Science and Engineering Education - FOSSEE, is
based at IIT Bombay which is funded by MHRD as part of National Mission on 
Education through ICT.

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Watch the video available at the following link. It summarises the Spoken 
Tutorial project.If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and 
watch it. 

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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops using spoken tutorials,
gives certificates to those who pass an online test.

For more details, contact contact@spoken-tutorial.org

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Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the "Talk to a Teacher" project.
It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, 
Government of India. More information on this mission is available at the 
given link.

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Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful.
Thank you!