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Using TeXStudio And LaTeX
Skills Seminar
February 28th, 2014
David Troendle
Agenda
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Introduction
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Installing TeXStudio on Windows and Ubuntu.
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Structuring a LaTeX document.
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Creating itemized and enumerated lists.
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Creating a bibliography.
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Creating figures, graphics and referencing them.
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Creating tables.
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Creating equations.
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Getting past problems.
Introduction
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Purpose of Skill Seminar
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Get past steepest part of learning curve for a topic
quickly.
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Discuss basic strategy.
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Show participate how to punch through the shallow part
of the learning curve.
LaTeX is a markup language conceptually similar to HTML.
Not WYSIWYG!
TeXStudio is an integrated development environment for
LaTeX.
Installing TeXStudio on
Windows and Ubuntu
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Installation instructions available here.
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Handy websites:
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LaTeX Project Site
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Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
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Extensive package archive.
TeXStudio
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LaTeX Wiki Book (Special characters)
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LaTeX Math (Equations) Wiki Book
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Structuring a LaTeX Document
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HelloWorld.tex
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\documentclass
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\documentclass{article}
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\documentclass[journal]{IEEEtran}
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\documentclass[print]{acmconf}
Sample searches:
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“latex ieee document class example”
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“latex acm document class example”
Use the abstractions!
Creating itemized and
enumerated lists
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Bullets And Numbering Part 1
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Our first package – enumerate
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Bullets And Numbering Part 2
Creating a Bibliography
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BibTeX is the component of LaTeX that handles
bibliographies. Formatting is largely controlled by the
document class.
There is a separate <file>.bib that contains the
bibliography database.
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Bibliography Part 1
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Google “Quicksort” to find BibTeX file
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Bibliography Part 2
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Bibliography Database
Creating Figures, Graphics
And Referencing Them
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Figures And References
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Use LibreDraw to create eps files.
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Use Gimp to create png files.
Creating Tables
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Tables
Creating Equations
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Equations
Balancing parens, brackets is important. TeXStudio can
help.
Getting Past Problems
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Google it. Google it. Google it.
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“latex how to boldface”
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“latex how to set margins”
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“latex how to place figures in figures”
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“latex how to create algorithms”
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“latex how to include file listings verbatim”
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“latex how to create state diagram”
Examples
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“CSci-533 Fall 2013 Homework 1.tex”
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“Engr-692-67 Spring 2014 Homework 1.zip”
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Example of arrays, program listings, and figures within
figures.
“Engr-692-67 Spring 2014 Homework 2.zip”
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Example of algorithms, proofs
Example of aligning equations.
Thanks to Drs. Wilkins and Xue for allowing their
assignments to be shared.
Thanks!
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Questions
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
Fear of failure does not justify not trying. Try it!