An Introduction To Latex: O. V. Ramana Murthy
An Introduction To Latex: O. V. Ramana Murthy
An Introduction To Latex: O. V. Ramana Murthy
O. V. Ramana Murthy
B206, AB2
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
Motivation
The pdf from Latex source file is very different and
preferred by professionals and reviewers than Word
files
Automatically updates the page number in (contents),
list of figures, tables, etc in the beginning of the Thesis
Updates references and their citations automatically
Table number and Figure nos. are updated
automatically.
Chapter, sections, subsections etc all are aligned and
numbered and cross-reference can be given.
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Packages required
MikTex
Reference manager e.g. Jabref
Tex editor e.g. Texmaker, Winedit
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Latex
It is more like programming your ‘text’
Choose a template first. E.g. IEEE double column
paper format
\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\end{document}
Declare the packages you need (mostly standard)
\usepackage{graphicx}
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Common usage
Title
\title{Title of the Paper}
Author details
\author{
\IEEEauthorblockN{Authors names}
\IEEEauthorblockA{Dept. of }
}
Abstract
\begin{abstract} …. \end{abstract}
Sections e.g. Introduction, Literature Survey
\section{Introduction}
\label{sec::Introduction}
Subsection
\subsection{Implicit Techniques}
5 New line \\
Common usage
Numbered/bullet points
\begin{itemize}
\item{Question no. 1}
\item{Question no. 2}
\end{itemize}
Italics \textit{..}
Bold font \textbf{…}
Figure
\begin{figure*}[t]
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{images/fig2.png}}
\caption{Overall Framework}
\label{fig::OverallLayoutAndFramework}
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\end{figure*}
Table declaration
\begin{table}
\caption{Performance …}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
Approach & Description \\
\hline
A & Technique 1
\hline
\end{tabular}\\
\label{tab::Table1}
\end{center}
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\end{table}
Common usage
The results obtained by applying the proposed
framework on the above mentioned datasets are shown
in Table \ref{tab::Table1}.
use linear SVM LIBLINEAR\cite{liblinear}
\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{References}
\footnote{\url{http://lear.inrialpes.fr/…}}
\begin{equation}
v_{jk} = \dfrac{1}{N \sqrt{2 \pi_k}}
\end{equation}
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