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diff --git a/latex/handout.rst b/latex/handout.rst index 62261bf..2177361 100644 --- a/latex/handout.rst +++ b/latex/handout.rst @@ -1,8 +1,5 @@ -LaTeX -===== - Introduction ------------- +============ LaTeX is a typesetting program that produces excellently typeset documents. Typesetting is placing text onto a page with all the style formatting @@ -15,7 +12,7 @@ LaTeX is pronounced either as "Lah-tech" or "Lay-tech". Why LaTeX? -~~~~~~~~~~ +========== A few reasons for using LaTeX - @@ -33,7 +30,7 @@ A few reasons for using LaTeX - Course Outline -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +============== In this course, we will learn enough LaTeX to be a able to produce a simple document with text, tables, figures, math, references and bibliography. We @@ -45,7 +42,7 @@ serve as a teaching/learning tool to learn LaTeX. During the course, we shall reproduce this sample document, starting from scratch, in LaTeX A Look at the Sample Document -+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +----------------------------- A look at the sample document gives us an idea about the various elements present in the document, that we will be learning during this course. @@ -64,7 +61,7 @@ documents. LaTeX is not a Word Processor -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +============================= What do we mean by LaTeX not being a Word Processor? Suppose we wanted to create a simple document as shown in the image below. If one used a normal @@ -98,7 +95,7 @@ consistently, with a few changes in the preamble of the document, with-out having to change each element separately. First steps -- Typesetting a minimal document ---------------------------------------------- +============================================= Let us start with a minimal example to learn how to write a LaTeX document and compile it to see the **typeset** output. @@ -122,7 +119,7 @@ Note: The ``latex`` command is often used, instead of ``pdflatex`` to get the compile our documents. What does it mean? -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------------ As we have already seen, LaTeX is a document based markup. The first line, ``\documentclass{article}``, tells that our document is an article type @@ -134,7 +131,7 @@ of the content of the LaTeX document. The text in between the begin and end commands is typeset in the output document. A little digression -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +=================== Just like in ``bash`` and ``Python``, the commands in LaTeX are case-sensitive. ``\Documentclass`` is therefore not a valid command. @@ -174,13 +171,13 @@ equivalent to a single empty line.) Similarly, multiple spaces are treated as a single space. Adding Structure ----------------- +================ Let us now, look at giving the document some basic structure, like title, sections, etc. ``\documentclass`` -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +------------------ As we have already seen, the ``documentclass`` command tells LaTeX, the type of the document that we intend to create. Some of the available LaTeX classes @@ -348,7 +345,7 @@ Now, that we have the basic structure of the document, let's get into the content and the details of it. Typesetting Text ----------------- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's begin with adding the second paragraph to the introduction section. Let's place the text of the second para, after the first line, that we @@ -394,7 +391,7 @@ We could also change the separating - (hyphen) to an em-dash (or en-dash) -- is em-dash and --- is an em-dash, to improve the appearance of the document. Lists ------ +===== The section on Use of Scipy in this course, contains lists. Let's now add lists to our document. The ``enumerate`` environment adds numbered lists to @@ -407,7 +404,7 @@ LaTeX also has a description list, which shall be an exercise, for you. Footnotes, Labels and References --------------------------------- +================================ Let's now add the footnote to pylab. LaTeX provides a footnote command to add a footnote. @@ -426,7 +423,7 @@ compile once again, for the section number to appear in the footnote. Including code --------------- +============== In the footnote above, and in the table for the sub-packages list, we used the ``\texttt`` command to get a fixed width font. But we could @@ -457,7 +454,7 @@ use the lstlisting environment (``\begin{lstlisting}`` and of our document. Figures, Tables and Floats --------------------------- +========================== Let's now add the figure, to the appendix. @@ -517,7 +514,7 @@ beginning of the appendix. The bibliographic citations will be dealt with later. Tables -~~~~~~ +------ Now, let us look at the other kind of floats - Tables. We shall convert the list of sub-packages in the sub-packages section to a @@ -558,7 +555,7 @@ You could also add a listoftables or listoffigures to the document, similar to the way we added table of contents. Typesetting Math ----------------- +================ Now we shall move to typesetting the Math in the sample document given to us. We shall start with the Matrices subsection. @@ -653,7 +650,7 @@ spacing required. +---------+--------------------+---------+ Bibliography ------------- +============ Let's now look at how to write bibliography and cite references. @@ -672,7 +669,7 @@ have. In our sample document, we have less than 10 items in the Bibliography and therefore we use 9. Presentations with Beamer -------------------------- +========================= Using beamer for you presentations is a good idea, since you can use the LaTeX that you have used for the report/document for the @@ -705,7 +702,6 @@ you need to give the frame an optional parameter ``[fragile]``. To achieve more with beamer, it is highly recommended that you look at the ``beameruserguide``. -.. include :: lab-workbook.rst .. Local Variables: mode: rst |