LaTeX Session Plan & Outline

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

2.2.3 what does it mean?

• \documentclass{article}
  • environments
• \begin{document}, \end{document}
• %comments

2.2.4 A few edits to show the following

• spaces, newline, new paragraph
  • examples

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

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

2.3 Basic Structure

2.3.1 documentclass

• environments, commands - syntax
  • commands begin with \
  • case sensitive
  • any character other than letters – numbers, space or sp. chars. – terminate the command
  • parameters { }
  • optional parameters [ ]
• article, report, book, beamer, letter
• optional parameters
  • font size
  • paper size
  • onecolumn, twocolumn
  • draft

2.3.2 Titles/Top Matter

• title
• author
• date
• maketitle

2.3.3 Sectioning Commands

• part, chapter, section, subsection, subsubsection
• alternative short headings
  • for TOC
• Section numbering
  • secnumdepth
  • tocdepth
  • un-numbered sections
  • compile twice

2.3.4 Appendices

2.3.5 Abstract

• \renewcommand

2.3.6 Table of contents

• \tableofcontents
• \addcontentsline
• compile twice

2.4 Typesetting Text

2.4.1 Text formatting

• emphasizing text
• font styles and size
  • \texttt, \textbf, \textsc …
  • \uline, \uwave, \sout
  • \tiny, \large, \Huge, …
• subscript, superscript
• quotation marks

2.4.2 Lists

• itemize
• enumerate
• description
• nested lists

2.4.3 Special paragraphs

• Footnotes
• quoting text
• verbatim
• Listings package

2.5 Tables, Figures, Floats, Labels & Referencing

2.5.1 tabular environment

• creating tables
  • rows and columns
• positioning
• justifying text
  • r, l, c
• lines
  • |, hline, cline

2.5.2 Graphics

• graphicx package
  • supported image formats
  • \includegraphics
    • options - scale, height, width, angle

2.5.3 Floats

• Figures
• Tables
• Captions

2.5.4 Labels and Cross-referencing

• Floats
• Sections

2.5.5 List of Tables, Figures

• listoftables
• listoffigures

2.6 Typesetting Math

2.6.1 \usepackage{amsmath}

2.6.2 Modes

• inline
• displayed

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)

2.6.9 Matrices

• dots

2.6.10 spacing

• \, \quad \qquad

2.6.11 Equation numbering

2.6.12 align, align*

2.7 Bibliography

2.7.1 thebibliography environment

2.7.2 Citations

• \cite
• more specific [p. 207]
• multiple citations

2.7.3 BibTeX

• writing a .bib file
• using it
• compiling
• Bibliography styles

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