Kathford Int’l College

g of Engineering
g g and
Management
g
“O
“One
One Day
D Workshop
W k h on LaTeX
L T X”
LaTeX”

Presented
P t d By:
B
Bikal Adhikari
B E M.Sc.
B.E., M Sc Engg.
Engg
Lecturer
ectu e
D p
Department off C
Computer
p and
d El
Electronics
i & Communication
C i i Engineering
E gi i g

20th January,
January 2017 1
 Brief Outline of Presentation

 Introduction to LaTeX

 Comparison with Microsoft Office Word

 Need
N d and
d IImportance
p t off LaTeX
L T X in
i academia
d i andd researchh

 Installation and Configuration of LaTeX Typesetting System.

System

 Creating technical documents and research paper in LaTeX

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Introduction to LaTeX:
 A LaTeX is a high quality open source typesetting system that is
very popular in publishing books,
books research articles etc.
etc

 The initial development of LaTeX was motivated by the need to

develop technical documents.
documents

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 Comparison with Microsoft Word: Why
LaTeX?
 MS Word is a professional application software developed by
Mi
Microsoft ft Inc.
I
 It has its own set of advantages and limitations
limitations.
 Advantages: Simple to use, use easy to start for beginners
 Limitations: Difficulty to maintain uniformity., Lack of good
control over document structure
structure., Customizations is low,
low
Proprietary
p y Software.
 MS W Word d iis a proprietary
i t software.
ft One
O should
h ld purchase
h its
it
licensed version for legal use.
use
 Latex is
i an openp source software.
f Overcomes
O most off the
h
limitations of MS word.
word Only disadvantage: Difficulty to start
with
ith for
f Beginners
B gi

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Need and Importance of LaTeX in academia
and research
 At present,
present in most of the universities around the world,
world students
have to submit their dissertation/thesis/project report in LaTeX.
LaTeX
 B id , most off the
Besides, h ppeer-reviewed
i d jjournals
l and
d academic
d i p publishers
bli h
demand the author to send the p
paper/article
p in the LaTeX format.
 In case of Nepal,
Nepal most of us have been using pirated version of MS
Word! If Microsoft Inc.
Inc wants,
wants it could easily take serious action
against us.
us
 Th to
Thus, t increase
i th value
the l and
d credibility
dibilit off our documents,
d t there
th is
i
a need
d to
t switch
it h to
t open source softwares
ft lik LaTeX
like L T X for
f publishing
bli hi
our academic
d i documents.
d

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Installation and Configuration of LaTeX
typesetting system in Windows based OS
T
Texmaker:
k Text
T t editor
dit with
ith LaTeX
L T X support.
t Have
H ffeatures
t to
t aid
id in
i
typesetting LaTeX code.

T li
Texlive: L T X Engine.
LaTeX E gi Consists
C i t off different
diff t tools
t l that
th t altogather
lt g th
implements the LaTeX engine.
engine Works like a compiler to compile
LaTeX code.
code

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Working in LaTeX
Basic Structuring of a Document: Title,
Title Title Page,
Page Abstract,
Abstract List of
T bl List
Tables, Li t off Figures,
Fi Chapter,
Ch t Section,
S ti Subsection,
S b ti paragraph,
h etc
t

Placing Figures,
Figures Tables
Tables, Header
Header, Footer,
Footer footnotes etc

T
Typesetting
tti Mathematics:
M th ti Square,
S cube d nth roots,
b and t Superscript,
S i t
Subscript,
p , Fractions,, Vectors,, Differential equations,
q , Integral
g Equations,
q ,
Maxwell’ss Equations, Fourier Integrals, Fourier Transforms, Diode
Maxwell
equations etc.
etc

Bibli g phy and

Bibliography dRReferencing(APA,
f i g((APA, IEEE etc))

Typesetting Chemical Equations