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L
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“Write clear & beautiful english with LAT
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1. LaTeX Basics
You have to include the package mentioned in the headings e.g. to
use \definecolor you have to include the xcolor package with
\usepackage{xcolor} in the preamble
Available units for lengths and dimensions:
points pt millimeter mm inch in m width em
pixel px centimeter cm pica pc x height ex
1.1. Special Characters
\introduces a command (in text \textbackslash)
{ } embraces arguments, creates logical parts ($\{ \}$)
[ ] embraces optional command parameters ($\[ \]$)
%comments: code after % will be ignored. (\%)
&separates columns in tables (\&)
#parameter for own command declarations (\#)
_ ^ indizes and exponents in mathmode. e.g. a2
1(\_ \^)
2. Preamble before \begin{document}
2.1. Documentclass (necessary)
Usage: \documentclass[opt,opt]{class}
Common classes:
scrartcl (article), scrreprt (report), scrbook (book)
Common Options:
10pt/11pt/12pt Font size.
letterpaper/a4paper Paper size.
twocolumn Use two columns.
twoside Set margins for two-sided.
landscape Landscape orientation.
2.2. Load Packages (they do all the magic)
Usage: \usepackage[opt, opt]{package}
\PassOptionsToPackage{opt, opt}{package}
2.3. Penalties
Penalties are the main values that T
E
Xtries to minimise when line or page
breakes are calculated.
\linepenalty=10 breaking a page within a paragraph
\hyphenpenalty=50 line breaking at an automatic hyphen
\binoppenalty=700 breaking a line at a binary operator
\relpenalty=500 breaking a line at a relation
\clubpenalty=150 *breaking after first line of a paragraph
\widowpenalty=150 *breaking before last line of a paragraph
\brokenpenalty=100 page breaking after a hyphenated line
2.4. Language Settings with babel
\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel} (last language default)
\selectlanguage{language} \foreignlanguage{language}{text }
2.5. Glossar and Nomenclature with glossaries
Load \usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
Define: \newacronym{label}{ABB }{written-out}
\newglossaryentry{label}{name=..., description=...}
Use: \gls{label},\glspl{label }
3. Layout
3.1. Pagelayout with geometry package
Usage: \geometry{ opt, opt, ... }
Margin
Notes
Body
Header
Footer
1
2
3
45
6
7
8
9
10
11 bottom
top
left right
1
1in + \hoffset 2
1in + \voffset
3
\oddsidemargin 4
\topmargin
5
\headheight 6
\headsep
7
\textheight 8
\textwidth
9
\marginparwidth 10
\marginparwidth
11
\footskip
Additional paramter: left,right,top,bottom,paper=a4paper,
landscape|portrait,includehead,includefoot,twocolumn
3.2. Header and Footer with fancyhdr
\us ep a ck a ge { f an c yh d r }
\pagestyle{ fa n cy } % u se f an cyh dr pa ge sty le
\fancyhf{} % c lea r h ead er a nd f oo ter
\f a n cy h e a d [ RE ] { } % ev en pa ge r ig ht h ea de r
3.3. Colors with xcolor
\us ep a ck a ge { xcolor}
\d e fi n ec o lo r { tu m _ bl ue } { RG B }{ 0 , 115, 207 }
\c o lo r l et { c o l _ se c t io n } { tu m _ b lu e }
Predefined colors:
white, gray, black, red,green,blue,cyan,magenta,yellow
Fade a color with !value between 0 and 100, e.g. \color{gray!70}
Usage in Text: \textcolor{red}{text} or {\color{red}text}
4. Structure the Document
4.1. Title with titlepage
default: \author{text},\title{text},\date{\today},\maketitle
titlepage: \begin{titlepage} text \end{titlepage}
4.2. Table of Content, List of .. .
\tableofcontents \listoftables \listoffigures
\printglossaries (needs glossaries package)
4.3. Headings
\part{title} \subsubsection{title}
\chapter{title} \paragraph{title}
\section{title} \subparagraph{title}
\subsection{title}
*: no numbering, no entry in ToC
\part and \chapter only in dcumentcalss book or report
4.4. Lists
\begin{itemize} with bullet \item or \item[symbol]
\begin{enumerate} with numbered \item
\begin{description} with bold \item[word]
\be gi n { e nu me r at e } \ itemsep0 p t
\item Fi rst A rg um en t
\item Se con d Ar gu me nt
\end { e n um e ra t e }
5. Text
5.1. Fonts
Command Declaration Effect
\textrm{text} {\rmfamily text}Roman family
\textsf{text} {\sffamily text}Sans serif family
\texttt{text} {\ttfamily text} Typewriter family
\textmd{text} {\mdseries text}Medium series
\textbf{text} {\bfseries text}Bold series
\textup{text} {\upshape text}Upright shape
\textit{text} {\itshape text}Italic shap e
\textsl{text} {\slshape text}Slanted shap e
\textsc{text} {\scshape text}Small Caps shape
\emph{text} {\em text}Emphasized
\textnormal{text} {\normalfont text}Do cument font
\underline{text}Underline
5.2. Font size
\tiny tiny
\scriptsize scriptsize
\footnotesize footnotesize
\small small
\normalsize normalsize
\large large
\Large Large
\LARGE LARGE
\huge huge
\Huge Huge
5.3. Justification
Environment Declaration Other
\begin{center} \centering text \vfill text
\begin{flushleft} \raggedright text \hfill text
\begin{flushright} \raggedleft
6. Math Equations
Textstyle: $x^2 + 4$,x2+4 as part of the text.
Disyplaystyle: \begin{equation} x^2 + 4 \end{equation}
λ:= lim
x1→∞
x1
ˆ
x0
ft
2
n
pt2+ sin2(t)dt
!
≤1(1)
for numbered equations. use the * variant for unnumbered equations.
6.1. Fonts and Sizes in Math Mode
\scriptscriptstyle, \scriptstyle, \textstyle, \displaystyle
\mathrm, \mathit, \mathbb, \mathcal, \mathfrak
6.2. Often used math expressions
xn+1 x^{n+1} Ekin E_{\mathrm{kin}}
a+b
2\frac{a+b}{2} n
pa2+b2\sqrt[n]{a^2+b^2}
x1,...,xnx_1 , \ldots, x_n
x1+···+xnx_1 + \cdots + x_n
a+1
22
\left(a+\frac12 \right)^2
N
X
i=1
,
N
Y
i=1
\sum\limits_{i=1}^{N},
\prod\limits_{i=1}^{N}
F⊥,Fk\vec F_{\perp},\vec F_{\parallel}
lim
a→∞ \lim\limits_{a \rightarrow \infty}
b
ˆ
a
x2dx\int\limits_a^b x^2\; \mathrm{d}x
df
dxx0
\left.\frac{\mathrm df}{\mathrm dx}
\right|_{x_0}
a>, A†, A∗\vec a^\top, A^\dagger, A^*
!
<, def
=\stackrel{!}{<}, \stackrel{\rm def}{=}
6.3. Math function names (upright, correct spacing)
\sin \sinh \arcsin \csc \ln \min
\cos \cosh \arccos \sec \lg \max
\tan \tanh \arctan \cot \log \lim
\exp \det \tr \dim \ker \Pr
6.4. Important Math functions
P\sum Q\prod ´\int
´\int ˜\iint ˝\iiint ¸\oint
a\vec a.
a\dot a..
a\ddot aˆa\hat a
6.5. Important Symbols in Mathmode
++−-±\pm ∓\mp
<<≤\le \ll ·\cdot
>>≥\ge \gg ×\times
==6=\ne ≡\equiv ≈\approx
||⊥\perp |\mid k\parallel
f0f’ ∇\nabla ∆\Delta ∂\partial
∈\in ∀\forall ∃\exists @\nexists
∩\cap ∪\cup /∈\notin \\setminus
`\ell ∠\angle ◦\circ ∅\emptyset
∨\lor ∧\land ¬\lnot ∅\varnothing
>\top ⊥\bot ∞\infty ∝\propto
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