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LaTeX for beginners

Tiep Vu, Penn State EECS

Youtube Video (Vietnamese)

What and why Latex?

1. What's Latex?
2. Why Latex
   • It's free.
   • It's available for many machines.
   • The typesetting's better, especially the maths.
   • You can use the editor of your choice (I sometimes use Word).
   • Style changes are neater in LaTeX. Style files for many periodicals exist. Many Word users don't use styles or templates, and there's a limit to what can be done.
   • LaTeX files are ASCII and are portable. Because they're ASCII it's easy to discover how someone achieved an effect.
   • LaTeX is extensible. If you want a new feature, you can look around for a free add-on or write one yourself. Pagemaker Additions and Quark Xtensions exist, but usually cost hundreds of pounds (the MathMagic QuarkXTension for writing maths and importing/exporting TeX docs costs over £600).
   • LaTeX's floats are no more awkward than Word's anchored frames, and the latter don't always work well.

Compliers

1. Miktex (my favorite)
2. Tex Live
3. ...

Editors

1. Tex Maker
2. Winedit
3. Texstudio
4. Sublime Text (my favorite)
5. ....

Pdf viewer

1. Summatra PDF
2. ...

Settings for Sublime Text and Summatra PDF

1. Add Summatra PDF to path
2. [Install package control for Sublime] (https://packagecontrol.io/installation#st3)
3. Install LatexTools for editting Latex in Sublime Text 3.
   • How to install a Package in Sublime using Package Control
4. [Inverse search]

• In Summatra PDF, Open Settings/Options... from menu. Enter the following command into the box:

"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" "%f:%l"

Example

• See file report.tex

Latex sources

1. ShareLatex
2. tex Stack Exchange
3. Google

Others

1. Table Generator