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Introduction to LaTeX

An introduction to most of the useful features of LaTeX. This session will cover most of what you need to write useful, simple documents: including figures, tables and equations.

The template used in this class will be useful as a starting point for honours reports or Master/PhD theses.

• The Philosophy of LaTeX
• Document structure:
• Document classes, chapters, sections, abstract, title page.
• Running LaTeX: Common errors and how to deal with them
• Formatting with "environments": Quotations and Lists
• Simple tables and figures
• Converting spreadsheets and images for use in LaTeX
• Simple mathematics and equations (and basic alignment)
• A simple bibliography

Resources used in this session

• The slides used in the workshop: (PDF)
  (Acroread displays incorrectly. xpdf display correctly)


• The examples used (LaTeX files):

  example-1.tex

  The simplest example.

  thesis-1.tex

  Using the report document class

  thesis-2.tex

  Front Material: abstract and \maketitle.

  thesis-3.tex

  Document structure: \chapter, \section, \appendix

  thesis-4.tex

  Cross-references: \tableofcontents

  thesis-5.tex

  Cross-references: \label and \ref

  thesis-6.tex

  Figures and graphics: floating figures and \includegraphics

  lens-bore.eps

  A sample Encapsulated Postscript File graphic.

  thesis-7.tex

  Customising figure placement:
  \topfraction, \bottomfraction, \floatpagefraction and \textfraction

  thesis-8.tex

  Simple tables: table and tabular

  thesis-9.tex

  Mathematics: inline mathematics with $ and equations.

  thesis-all.tex

  Bibliographies using BibTeX: \bibliography and \bibliographystyle

  thesis-all.tex

  Bibliographies using BibTeX: \bibliography and \bibliographystyle

  thesis-format.tex

  An \included file

  bibliography.bib

  The BibTeX bibliography database for \bibliography