LaTeX workshop

Uppsala university

@teknatdr's PhD Days May 15-16

URL for slides: goo.gl/5zhk55

Its basic principle is that structures in the document
are marked and transformed into typeset output.

If the marks

• describe the look of the document, it is called optical markup,
• describe document structures, it is called logical markup.

TeX provides both forms of markup.

The preamble (setting up the document):

\documentclass{...}

\usepackage{...}

Body of the text:

\begin{document}

At the end of the document:

\end{document}

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Small is beautiful.
\end{document}

Certain characters are reserved for use by TeX/LaTeX and if you want to use them as-is in your document, you need to first escape them.

Reserved characters by LaTeX:

• # $ % ^ & _ { } ~ \

To print these characters, add a prefix backslash:

• \# \$ \% \^ \& \_ \{ \} \~ \textbackslash

TeX distributions

• TeXLive, MiKTeX, MacTeX

Use your macro package of choice or convenience:

• LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, or even plain TeX

There are several online LaTeX editors/compilers

• writeLaTeX, shareLaTeX, …

• CTAN – The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
  • Search CTAN
  • Packages by topic
  • List all packages on CTAN
• TeX Catalogue Online
  • Lists all CTAN packages in different ways, e.g., by topic

• texdoc <package-name> (on the command line)
• TeX StackExchange
• The LaTeX wikibook
• comp.text.tex
• … and many other places

• Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and Friends
• writeLaTeX videotutorials
• “Introduction to LaTeX” by @jdleesmiller
• A LaTeX workshop exercise

• The LaTeX Font Catalogue
• The LaTeX project
• Text processing using LaTeX
• Advanced LaTeX
• LaTeX maths and graphics
• detexify - LaTeX symbol classifier
• A direction finder for LaTeX documentation
• A document for absolute LaTeX beginners
• Getting to grips with LaTeX
• Getting Started with LaTeX
• Butterick's Practical Typography

• Markdown
• Pandoc
• LaTeX2HTML5

• TikZ/PGF, pgfplots
• datatool
• siunitx
• chemmacros, chemstyle, chemfig, mhchem
• biblatex
• cleveref
• … among many, many others

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