LaTeX

Topic outline

• General
  

  General

  Introduction to the Document Preparation System LaTeX, which is a very useful tool for the production of mathematical and scientific documents, due to its high typographical quality; it can also be used to produce personal documents, papers, books, theses, presentations and several other types of documents.

  • Quiz Assignment
  • Final paper Assignment
  • News forum
  • General forum
• 1. Introduction
  

  1. Introduction

  Marking text. Special characters. Advantages and disadvantages of mark-up languages. The processing cycle of a LaTeX document.

  • Sample files Folder
• 2. Installation
  

  2. Installation

  Getting and installing LaTeX and auxilliary packages. Follow the advice in the Starting out with TeX, LaTeX, and friends page at the CTAN archive.
  

  • Starting out with TEX, LATEX, and friends URL
• 3. Document styles
  

  3. Document styles

  Styles and additional packages. Document structure and outline.
  

  • Example (a part of "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX") Folder
• 4. Symbols and equations
  

  4. Symbols and equations

  Typesetting math formulas with LaTeX.
  

  • Table of LaTeX Symbols File
  • LaTeX source for the table of symbols File
• 5. Textblocks
  

  5. Textblocks

  • Lists File
  • Verbatim environments File
  • Footnotes File
  • Tables File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 6. Graphics
  

  6. Graphics

  Figures and images. Graphic packages for LaTeX.
  

  • Figures and other floats File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 7. Bibliographies
  

  7. Bibliographies

  References and bibliographic databases. Using bibtex.
  

  • Bibliography and References Management File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 8. Indices
  

  8. Indices

  Tables of contents, figures and tables. Use of makeindex to create book indices.
• 9. Papers
  

  9. Papers

  Writing papers for journals, using the style provider by the publisher.
  

  • Using LaTeX to prepare manuscripts for journals File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 10. Presentations
  

  10. Presentations

  Making slides with LaTeX. Package beamer.
  

  • Using LaTeX to prepare presentations File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 11. Thesis
  

  11. Thesis

  Writing a thesis in LaTeX. Specific document style for FEUP theses.
  

  • Using LaTeX to Write the Dissertation File
  • LaTeX source files Folder
• 12. Extensions
  

  12. Extensions

  Creating new commands, packages and document styles.
  

  • Source files Folder