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An Introduction To Latex: O. V. Ramana Murthy

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An Introduction to Latex

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

Install all the three in the order given

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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}

Start writing your material in the ‘tags’ provided

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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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