LaTeX Session Plan & Outline

Table of contents:

1 Session Plan with Time

2 Outline

2.1 Introduction

2.1.1 What are TeX & LaTeX

2.1.2 Why LaTeX? (WYSIWYG vs. WYSIWYM)

2.2 First Document

2.2.1 writing the source

2.2.2 compiling, to get the document

• only pdflatex BR

2.2.3 what does it mean?

• \documentclass{article} BR

  • environments BR

• \begin{document}, \end{document} BR

• %comments BR

2.2.4 A few edits to show the following

• spaces, newline, new paragraph BR

  • examples BR

• special characters \% \& \{ \} \\ \textbackslash BR

• nothing after the \end{document} is seen by LaTeX BR

2.3 Basic Structure

2.3.1 documentclass

• environments, commands - syntax BR

  • commands begin with \ BR

  • case sensitive BR

  • any character other than letters – numbers, space or sp. chars. – terminate the command BR

  • parameters { } BR

  • optional parameters [ ] BR

• article, report, book, beamer, letter BR

• optional parameters BR

  • font size BR

  • paper size BR

  • onecolumn, twocolumn BR

  • draft BR

2.3.2 Titles/Top Matter

• title BR

• author BR

• date BR

• maketitle BR

2.3.3 Sectioning Commands

• part, chapter, section, subsection, subsubsection BR

• alternative short headings BR

  • for TOC BR

• Section numbering BR

  • secnumdepth BR

  • tocdepth BR

  • un-numbered sections BR

  • compile twice BR

2.3.4 Appendices

2.3.5 Abstract

• \renewcommand BR

2.3.6 Table of contents

• \tableofcontents BR

• \addcontentsline BR

• compile twice BR

2.4 Typesetting Text

2.4.1 Text formatting

• emphasizing text BR

• font styles and size BR

  • \texttt, \textbf, \textsc … BR

  • \uline, \uwave, \sout BR

  • \tiny, \large, \Huge, … BR

• subscript, superscript BR

• quotation marks BR

2.4.2 Lists

• itemize BR

• enumerate BR

• description BR

• nested lists BR

2.4.3 Special paragraphs

• Footnotes BR

• quoting text BR

• verbatim BR

• Listings package BR

2.5 Tables, Figures, Floats, Labels & Referencing

2.5.1 tabular environment

• creating tables BR

  • rows and columns BR

• positioning BR

• justifying text BR

  • r, l, c BR

• lines BR

  • |, hline, cline BR

2.5.2 Graphics

• graphicx package BR

  • supported image formats BR

  • \includegraphics BR

    • options - scale, height, width, angle BR

2.5.3 Floats

• Figures BR

• Tables BR

• Captions BR

2.5.4 Labels and Cross-referencing

• Floats BR

• Sections BR

2.5.5 List of Tables, Figures

• listoftables BR

• listoffigures BR

2.6 Typesetting Math

2.6.1 \usepackage{amsmath}

2.6.2 Modes

• inline BR

• displayed BR

2.6.3 Symbols

2.6.4 Powers and indices

2.6.5 Fractions

2.6.6 Roots

2.6.7 Sums and integrals

2.6.8 Brackets

• \left( \right) BR

2.6.9 Matrices

• dots BR

2.6.10 spacing

• \, \quad \qquad BR

2.6.11 Equation numbering

2.6.12 align, align*

2.7 Bibliography

2.7.1 thebibliography environment

2.7.2 Citations

• \cite BR

• more specific [p. 207] BR

• multiple citations BR

2.7.3 BibTeX

• writing a .bib file BR

• using it BR

• compiling BR

• Bibliography styles BR

2.7.4 Bibliography in ToC

2.8 Beamer

2.8.1 frames

2.8.2 title page, information

2.8.3 text animations

2.8.4 themes

2.8.5 table of contents