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Latex Tutorial

a note based on LaTeX-Tutorial.com

01 First Document

The basic layout of a LaTex file

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
    Hello World!
\end{document}
  • All commands share the following structure:
    \commandname{option}
  • An environment is simply an area of your document where certain typesetting rules apply.
  • it is imperative the document environment is the topmost environment
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    % Valid:
    \begin{document}
        \begin{environment1}
            \begin{environment2}
            \end{environment2}
        \end{environment1}
    \end{document}

    % Also invalid:
    \begin{environment}
        \begin{document}
        \end{document}
    \end{environment}

Adding a title page

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\documentclass{article}

\title{My first document}
\date{2013-09-01}
\author{John Doe}

\begin{document}
  \pagenumbering{gobble}
  \maketitle
  \newpage
  \pagenumbering{arabic}

  Hello World!
\end{document}

Summary

  • A document has a preamble and document part
  • The document environment must be defined
  • Commands beginning with a backslash \, environments have a begin and end tag
  • Useful settings for pagenumbering:
    • gobble - no numbers
    • arabic - arabic numbers
    • roman - roman numbers