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LaTeX Class II

The document outlines a comprehensive guide on document preparation and presentation software, focusing on LaTeX and LibreOffice. It covers various units including document creation, styling, formatting, tables, algorithms, referencing, and making presentations. LaTeX is highlighted as a powerful tool for producing high-quality documents, particularly for complex mathematical and technical content.

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LaTeX Class II

The document outlines a comprehensive guide on document preparation and presentation software, focusing on LaTeX and LibreOffice. It covers various units including document creation, styling, formatting, tables, algorithms, referencing, and making presentations. LaTeX is highlighted as a powerful tool for producing high-quality documents, particularly for complex mathematical and technical content.

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Document Preparation

&
Presentation Software
DOCUMENT PREPARATION & PRESENTATION SOFTWARE
Unit 1: Introduction
1. Create a LaTeX/ LibreOffice document having several paragraphs, including comments in LaTeX.
2. Organize content into sections, including preface/abstract. Using the article and book class of LaTeX. Handling
errors.

Unit 2: Styling Pages


1. Loading and using packages, setting margins, header and footer, and page orientation.
2. Organizing the document into multiple columns

Unit 3: Formatting Content


1. Formatting text (styles, size, alignment)
2. Adding colours to a block of text/ page
3. Adding ordered and unordered lists
4. Inserting mathematical expressions – subscripts, superscripts, fractions, binomials, aligning equations, operators,
Greek and mathematical symbols, and mathematical fonts.

Unit 4: Tables and Figures


1. Create basic tables
2. Adding different types of borders to a table
3. Merging rows and columns
4. Splitting tables across multiple pages.
5. Incorporating figures and subfigures, explore different properties like rotation and scaling.
Unit 5: Algorithms and Equations
1. Incorporating algorithms, body typesetting, organizing algorithms across multiple pages.
2. Incorporating equations, indentation, and captioning.

Unit 6: Referencing and Indexing


1. Insert captions, labels, and references
2. Incorporate cross-referencing (refer to sections, table, and images)
3. Incorporate a bibliography
4. Create a back index.

Unit 7: Making Presentations


1. Create a slideshow
2. Incorporate logo
3. Highlight important points
4. Create a title page
5. Make a table of contents
6. Incorporate special effects in a slideshow.
LATEX
• LaTeX is a tool used for document preparation.
• Its mode of operation is quite different to many other document-production applications you
may have used, such as Microsoft Word or LibreOffice
• Writer: those “WYSIWYG” ((What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get)) -tools provide users with an
interactive page into which they type and edit their text and apply various forms of styling.
• LaTeX works very differently: instead, your document is a plain text file interspersed with
LaTeX commands used to express the desired (typeset) results.
• To produce a visible, typeset document, your LaTeX file is processed by a piece of software
called a TeX engine which uses the commands embedded in your text file to guide and control
the typesetting process, converting the LaTeX commands and document text into a
professionally typeset PDF file.
• This means you only need to focus on the content of your document and the computer, via
LaTeX commands and the TeX engine, will take care of the visual appearance (formatting).
• LaTeX is a document preparation system for the TEX typesetting program.
• TeX, a page-description computer programming language developed
during 1977–86 by Donald Knuth, a Stanford University professor, to
improve the quality of mathematical notation in his books.

Text formatting systems, unlike WYSIWYG (“What You See Is What You Get”)
word processors, embed plain text formatting commands in a document,
which are then interpreted by the language processor to produce a formatted
document for display or printing.
Why learn LATEX?

• It enables you to produce publication-quality output with great accuracy and


consistency.
• LATEX works on any computer and produces industry-standard PDF documents.
• It is available both in free (open-source) and commercial implementations.
• support for typesetting extremely complex mathematics, tables and technical
content for the physical sciences;
• facilities for footnotes, cross-referencing and management of bibliographies;
• ease of producing complicated, or tedious, document elements such as indexes,
glossaries, table of contents, lists of figures;
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