The document is a template for writing documents in LaTeX. It discusses how to compile LaTeX files into PDFs using tools like pdflatex. It covers how to structure LaTeX documents with a main file and chapter files, and how to write the content including formatting text, math, fonts, and inserting special characters. The document provides examples of LaTeX code for various formatting and layout elements.
The document is a template for writing documents in LaTeX. It discusses how to compile LaTeX files into PDFs using tools like pdflatex. It covers how to structure LaTeX documents with a main file and chapter files, and how to write the content including formatting text, math, fonts, and inserting special characters. The document provides examples of LaTeX code for various formatting and layout elements.
The document is a template for writing documents in LaTeX. It discusses how to compile LaTeX files into PDFs using tools like pdflatex. It covers how to structure LaTeX documents with a main file and chapter files, and how to write the content including formatting text, math, fonts, and inserting special characters. The document provides examples of LaTeX code for various formatting and layout elements.
The document is a template for writing documents in LaTeX. It discusses how to compile LaTeX files into PDFs using tools like pdflatex. It covers how to structure LaTeX documents with a main file and chapter files, and how to write the content including formatting text, math, fonts, and inserting special characters. The document provides examples of LaTeX code for various formatting and layout elements.
1.1.1 Tools Hello World! To process the files you (may) need:
• pdflatex (for example from tetex package ≥ 0.9-6, which you can get from Red Hat 5.2);
• acroread (a PDF viewer, available from http://www.adobe.com/);
• ghostscript ≥ 5.10 (for example from Red Hat Contrib) and ghostview or gv (from RedHat Linux);
• efax package could be useful, if you plan to fax documents.
1.1.2 How to use the tools
Follow these steps:
1. put all source .tex files in one directory, then chdir to the directory (or put some of them in the LATEXsearch path — if you know how to do this);
2. run “pdflatex file.tex” on the main file of the document three times (three — to prepare valid table of contents);
3. to see or print the result use acroread (unfortunately some versions of
acroread may produce PostScript which is too complex), or
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4. run ghostscript: “gv file.pdf” to display or:
“gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -q -dBATCH -sOutputFile=file.ps file.pdf” to produce a PostScript file;
5. run “fax send phone-number file.ps” as root to send a fax, or — if you
know how to do this — modify the fax script to be able to fax .pdf files directly (you have to insert “|%PDF*” somewhere. . . ).
1.2 How to write a document
1.2.1 The main document Choose the name of the document, say document. Copy template.tex to document.tex, then edit it, change the title, the authors and set proper in- clude(s) for all the chapters. Hello World! 1.2.2 Chapters Each chapter should be included in the main document as a separate file. You can choose any name for the file, but we suggest adding a suffix to the name of the main file. For our example we use the file name document_chapter1.tex. First, copy template_chapter.tex to document_chapter1.tex and add the line
\include{document_chapter1}
in the document.tex, then edit document_chapter1.tex, change the
chapter title and edit the body of the chapter appropriately.
1.2.3 Spell-checking Do use a spell-checker, please! You may also want to check grammar, style and so on. Actually you should do it (if you have enough spare time). But you must check spelling! You can use the ispell package for this, from within emacs, or from the command line:
ispell -t document_chapter1.tex 1.3. LATEX AND PDFLATEX CAPABILITIES 7
1.3 LATEX and pdfLATEX capabilities
1.3.1 Overview First you edit your source .tex file. In LATEX you compile it using the latex command to a .dvi file (which stands for device-independent). The .dvi file can be converted to any device-dependent format you like using an appropriate driver, for example dvips. When producing .pdf files you should use pdflatex, which produces di- rectly .pdf files out of .tex sources. Note that in the .tex file you may need to use some PDF specific packages. For viewing .tex files use your favourite text editor, for viewing .dvi files under X Window System use xdvi command, .ps files can be viewed with gv (or ghostview) and .pdf files with acroread, gv or xpdf.
1.3.2 LATEX Hello World!
A lot of examples can be found in this document. You should also print • doc/latex/general/latex2e.dvi and • doc/latex/general/lshort2e.dvi from your tetex distribution (usually in • /usr/share/texmf or • /usr/lib/texmf/texmf).
1.3.3 pdfLATEX Consult doc/pdftex/manual.pdf from your tetex distribution for more details. Very useful informations can be found in the hyperref and graphics package manuals: • doc/latex/hyperref/manual.pdf and • doc/latex/graphics/grfguide.dvi.
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