LaTeX is not... rubber a Bill Gates product WYSIWYG (see) VooDoo just something for crazy (nerdy) people with lots of equations and math symbols

LaTeX is... document markup language document preparation system for TeX typesetting collection of TeX macros plain text with formatting cmds WYMIWYG (mean)

Basic Concept write text in editor of your choice (*.tex) compile (latex) results in *.aux, *.log and *.dvi file convert dvi to ps, pdf, etc or create pdf directly from source (pdflatex) done!

LaTeX - What Do You Need? editor of your choice WinEdt (compiles and generates pdf for you) http://www.winedt.com/ LaTeX environment (UNIX) MikTeX (WIN) http://miktex.org/

LaTeX Document Structure \documentclass{article} (article, report, book, letter) preamble \begin{document} body \end{document}

LaTeX Title Page \title{This Is My Title} \author{Martin Klein} \date{16. May 2007} \date{} - to leave it out %\date{} - to have LaTeX do it \maketitle (in body)

LaTeX Structures \chapter{Name of the Chapter} (not in article) \section{My Section} \subsection{A Subsection} \subsubsection{Subsubsection} \tableofcontents (in body) e.g. \section*{without numbering, not in index}

Some LaTeX Commands \begin{verbatim} ... \textbf{bold text} \textit{text in italics} \texttt{teletype} \scriptsize - 7pt \small - 9pt \normalsize - 10pt \large - 12pt \Large - 14pt \begin{verbatim} ... \end{verbatim} \begin{itemize} \item my item \end{itemize} \begin{enumerate}.... \item first item \end{enumerate}

Equations in LaTeX \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} ... \\ ... \end{eqnarray} $ ... $ \label{mylabel}

Tables in LaTeX \begin{table} \centering \begin{tabular}{rlc} (|c|c|c|) columns divided by ‘&’ rows end with ‘\\’ \end{tabular} \caption{mycaption} \label{mylabel} \end{table}

Figures in LaTeX \usepackage{graphicx} (in preamble) \begin{figure} \centering \includegraphics{filename} (pdf, png, jpg) \caption{...} \label{...} \end{figure}

EPS Figures in LaTeX \usepackage{epsfig} (in preamble) \epsfig{file=epsfig.eps, scale=0.6} use: latex, dvips/dvipdf(m), ps2pdf/pstopdf use: ‘convert fig.png eps3:fig.eps’

Referencing in LaTeX \ref{mylabel} for figures, tables, (sub)sections, equations \begin{figure} ... \label{mylabel} ... \end{figure} \section{mysection} \label{mylabel}

Citations in LaTeX data about cited paper stored in .bib file \cite{mypaperid} before \end{document} \bibliographystyle{abbrv} \bibliography{mybibfile} bibtex command creates .bbl file latex, bibtex, latex, latex

Sample BibTeX File Structure @inproceedings{bergmark:paper, author = {Donna Bergmark}, title = {Collection synthesis}, booktitle = {JCDL '02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on DL}, year = {2002}, isbn = {1-58113-513-0}, pages = {253--262}, location = {Portland, Oregon, USA}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/544220.544275}, } @article{bekaert:didl, author = {Jeroen Bekaert and Patrick Hochstenbach and Herbert {Van de Sompel}}, title = {Using {MPEG-21 DIDL} to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the {L}os {A}lamos {N}ational {L}aboratory Digital Library}, journal = {D-Lib Magazine}, volume = {9}, number = {11}, month = {November}, year = {2003}, note = "{doi:10.1045/november2003-bekaert}" http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=509907.509965

Books about LaTeX Lamport: “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System- 2nd/dp/0201529831/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-6643959- 2471150?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179321727&sr=8-1 Kopka: “Guide to LaTeX” http://www.amazon.com/Guide-LaTeX-Techniques-Computer- Typesetting/dp/0321173856/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/104-6643959- 2471150?ie=UTF8&qid=1179321727&sr=8-1 Mittelbach: “LaTeX Companion” http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Companion-Techniques-Computer- Typesetting/dp/0201362996/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/104-6643959- 2471150?ie=UTF8&qid=1179321727&sr=8-1