A Introduction to LTEX

Vinicius Cardoso Garcia Yguarat Cerqueira Cavalcanti a

RiSE - Reuse in Software Engineering

April 10, 2008

Summary
1 Motivation
A 2 What is LTEX? A 3 Why LTEX?

4 The Bibtex Hands On 5 The Beamer Hands On 6 Windows Installation 7 Linux Installation

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Motivation A What is LTEX? A X? Why LTE The Bibtex Hands On The Beamer Hands On Windows Installation Linux Installation

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Why no more Word-like software?

Template switching Keep focus Version control Collaborative edition Incompatibility between soft. versions Concise bibliography

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Motivation A What is LTEX? A X? Why LTE The Bibtex Hands On The Beamer Hands On Windows Installation Linux Installation

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A What is LTEX?

To prepare documents Easy to create:

summary index tables and gures lists CITATION BIBLIOGRAPHY math formulas

Creator: Donald Knuth

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Text quality Compatibility Stability Various formats conversion (PDF, HTML, PS) Documents compatibility Linux, Windows, Mac etc Document logic project Macros, Packages

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Document Logic Project

Figure: Project structure Figure: Document structure

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The Bibtex Hands On

Program to produce references Uses a separate le (.bib) Only use the cited references

Usage: \cite{Mohan2006}
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The Bibtex Hands On

A The power of LTEXand Beamer to make slides

This is Beamer!
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The Bibtex Hands On

A The power of LTEXand Beamer to make slides

This is Beamer!
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Miktex and Editors

Go to http://www.miktex.org Installing a basic MiKTeX system Installing the complete MiKTeX system Editors
Texniccenter - http://www.toolscenter.org Texlipse eclipse plugin - http://texlipse.sourceforge.net Notepad, Wordpad etc

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Ubuntu and Debian

aptitude install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra Editors

Kile - http://kile.sourceforge.net/ Texlipse eclipse plugin - http://texlipse.sourceforge.net Gedit, Kedit, vim, vi, emacs etc

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Some Links

Books http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/ Examples http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~mcolombo/stuff/ latex-hints.html Tables http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables Reference http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/ textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ index.html

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