1. Outline Basic English Information Inquiry Reading Technical Materials
Introduction, Grammar, Vocabulary, Translation
Information Inquiry
Database
Reading Technical Materials
Communications, Signal processing, Networks, etc.
Technical Writing
How to write a technical paper
Latex
Software

2. Latex Download Template Forum http://www.ctex.org/HomePage

3. Latex Basic information Typesetting Formula New environment Text
Special characters
Command
Comment
Run
Typesetting
Paragraph
Sections
Cross referral
Other useful tips
Formula
New environment

4. Basic information Text Special characters Commands Comments
Just type the words as you do in the Word.
Consecutive blanks are displayed as one blank.
Special characters
Add ‘\’ to show special characters in the text, i.e.,
Commands
Begins with ‘\’ and specific words.
E.g., \today returns the specific date, \textbf gives boldface characters, \alpha gives
Comments
The sentences following % are comments.

5. Basic information Run Latex Document types
Run Latex over the xxx.tex file.
Make corrections if errors. Warnings are ok, but make sure that there is no fatal mistakes.
With dvi file available, run dvi2pdf over the xxx.tex file.
Document types
Article, report, slides
Onecolumn, twocolumn
10pt, 12pt
Generally use the template for technical papers.
For large files, we may write different tex files for different parts, and use ‘\input’ to merge the tex files together.

6. Typesetting Paragraph Special characters Section Cross referral
Separate the paragraphs manually with two Enter, or ‘\\’, or \newline
\newpage.
Special characters
‘’ or `` ’’, \ldots, \~, ^o, --
Commands included in Equation
Section
\section, \subsection, \subsubsection
Cross referral
\label{xx}, \ref{xx}
eq:xx, sec:xx, fig:xx, tab:xx
Other useful tips
\footnote, \underline, \emph
Unit: cm, mm, in, pt
Font size: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large,\Large, \LARGE, \huge, \Huge

7. Typesetting
Other useful tips

8. Typesetting Other useful tips \begin{center} … \end{center}
\flushlest, \flushright
\begin{itemize} \item ..\end{itemize}
\begin{enumerate}\item .. \end{enumerate}
\begin{description} \item.. \end{description}
\begin{tabular} …\end{tabular}, \hline, \cline, \caption
\pagestyle{..}, plain, headings, empty
\begin{spacing}{1.8}
\hspace, \vspace

9. Formula Commands \begin{equation}\end{equation}
\begin{align}\end{align}
\begin{array}{ll}.. & ..\\ .. & ..\end{array}
Take advantage of the commands included in Equation for the special symbols
Eg., 1) a^2, a_2, \sqrt, \le, \ge, \in, \subset; 2) \alpha, \beta, \infty; 3) \overline, \underline, \overbrace, \underbrace, \rightarrow; 4) \dot, \cdot, \times, \frac, \sum, \integral; 5) \cos, \sin, \arg, \max, \min, \left,\right; 6) \big, \Big, \bigg, \Bigg,
Use \quad, \, \hspace to express blank.
No blank line is allowed.

10. New Environment newcommands \newcommand{xx}{xxxxxx}
Eg., \newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}},;
\newtheorem{xx}{xxxxxx}
Eg., \newtheorem{\Exm}{Example}, \begin{Exm}\end{Exm}