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Research Methodology

Lecture 1: Latex

Subhankar Mishra

School of Computer Sciences
National Institute of Science Education and Research
Bhubaneswar, Odisha

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Latex

  • Pronounced as LAY-tek
  • Users write the content and Latex takes care of the formatting
  • Widely used for scientific documents

Material

Overleaf - Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

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Latex - Installation

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Latex - Preamble

  • Anything before \begin{document}
  • Type of document, Packages required
\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper, twoside]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{First document}
\author{Subhankar Mishra \thanks{Footnote}}
\date{July 2020}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

We have now added a title, author and date to our first \LaTeX{} document!

\end{document}
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Latex - Comments

\begin{document}

\maketitle

We have now added a title, author and date to our first \LaTeX{} document!

% This line here is a comment. It will not be printed in the document.

\end{document}
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Latex - Bold, italics and underlining

  • Bold - \textbf{}
  • Italics - \textit{}
  • Underline - \underline{}
Some of the \textbf{greatest}
discoveries in \underline{science} 
were made by \textbf{\textit{accident}}.

Also check with \emph{}

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Latex - Images

  • Caption for the image
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{figure}[h]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{sample}
    \caption{a nice plot}
    \label{fig:mesh1}
\end{figure}

You can refer to a figure using \ref{fig:mesh1}
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Latex - Lists

Unordered lists

\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
  \item The individual entries are indicated with a black dot, a so-called bullet.
  \item The text in the entries may be of any length.
\end{itemize}

Ordered lists

\begin{enumerate}
  \item This is the first entry in our list
  \item The list numbers increase with each entry we add
\end{enumerate}
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Latex - Math

One of the most widely supported feature is writing maths in LaTeX

\begin{equation}
  E=m
\end{equation}

In physics, the mass-energy equivalence is stated by the equation $E=mc^2$.
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Latex - Abstract

  • Scientific documents normally have an overview in the beginning
  • abstract environment will help
\begin{document}

\begin{abstract}
  This is a simple paragraph at the beginning of the 
  document. A brief introduction about the main subject.
\end{abstract}
\end{document}
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Latex - Chapters and Section

\chapter{First Chapter}

\section{Introduction}
  This is the first section.

\section{Second Section}
  Text for second section
  \subsection{First Subsection}
    First subsection

\section*{Unnumbered Section}
  No numbers
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Latex - Tables

Table \ref{table:data} is an example of referenced \LaTeX{} elements.

\begin{table}[h!]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{||c c c c||} 
 \hline
 Col1 & Col2 & Col2 & Col3 \\ [0.5ex] 
 \hline\hline
 1 & 6 & 87837 & 787 \\ 
 2 & 88 & 788 & 6344 \\ [1ex] 
 \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table to test captions and labels}
\label{table:data}
\end{table}
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