LaTeX

Online Faculty Training Program 2020 (OFTP)

Date: 18.06.20

AN3- Latex Training

Dr. P. Vanchinathan, Professor, SAS

 

Notes Collated by: Dr. Malay Bhattacharjee

&

Dr. Sudheer Muhammed KM

Unique Features of Latex

• This software requires it to be at your end but it is very difficult to install.

• It's available in cloud version as this is done online.

• Overleaf.com is the site from which it can be done without installing it in your machine.  

• You have to register first. Right side page of a pdf is seen while the left side page would show a notepad.

• MS Office is used for office purposes. But we are in an academic institution.

• Features

• Automated numbering: Robust inflated lines in paragraphs

• In built support for technical staff

• Above all, elegancy and beauty

• Type the document

• Make a pdf (compiling)

• Viewing the output

• The input file contain all the matters and the commands

• VIT has a template for phd thesis

• All formatting is done through commands

• How to close a page? would be discussed later

• How to create a Heading?

• Begin document. It should start with a backslash

• Write some text

• End document 

• End with double backslash

• The input and the output might not be the same using LATEX

• Every paragraphs should have a blank line in between

• Standard spacing would be done by the software

• How to create a table?

• See below (table 4 supplied)

• For text - left alignment, for numbers - right alignment

• Concentrate on the logical aspect not the technical aspect

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Steps to follow for letter writing in Latex

Sample letter writing codes in Latex

Creating Table in Latex

BF-Bold, it-Italics

Creating list in Latex (Sample Image)

Commands to follow to create list 

\begin{itemize}

\item Confidentiality

\item Authenticity \item Integrity

\item Accountability

\end {itemize }

To create again inside we will write \begin{enumerate}

To refer a label

To start a Mathematical formula

For example (a+b)^2

$ (a+b) ^2  = a^2 + b^3 + 3 \alpha\beta $