Preface
Accessibility
The First LaTeX Document
Introduction
What is LaTeX?
Why should I choose LaTeX over my current document system?
Download and Installation
Intro to “TeXstudio”
The Toolbar
Minimum Structure for an article – your first document in LaTeX
Formatting Your Document
Sections and Subsections
Paragraphs, line breaks and spaces
Line breaks and page breaks
Line breaks
Page breaks
Paragraphs
Spaces
Skips
Text Alignment
Lists
Font Styles
Table of Contents
Title Page
Commenting your code
Tables, Figures, and References
Introduction
Labels
Footnotes
Packages
Including Figures & Pictures
Including Figures
Including a Picture
Picture Dimensions
Floats
Float Location
Float Barriers
Sub-Figures
Captions (Flo’s Pet Hate)
Setting Tables
Separation Lines
Fixed Width of Columns
Controlling Vertical Adjustment
Combining Rows and Columns
Tabularx
Defining New Column Types
Specifying Row Height
The ‘Table’ Floating Environment
Lists of Figures and Tables
Referencing and the List of References
Terminology
The List of References
.bib files
Citing .bib Resources
Compiling the List of References
Endnotes
An Essay Template
In-Text References
Footnote References
Advanced Documents
Introduction
Beamer Presentation
First Beamer Presentation
Title Frame
Themes
Frame Title
Sections
AtBeginSection
Colour Boxes
Table of Contents
Overlays and Pauses
Columns
Blocks
Figures and Tables
Summary
Books
Main File
The Preamble File
Chapter File
Listings
A Basic Example
Formatting Listings
Using Source Files
Inline code
Natbib – Advanced Citations
Tips & Tricks
Page Dimensions
Styling
Page number
Header and footer style
Shortcuts and Special Escapes
Shortcuts
Special Escapes
Academic Writing with LaTeX
Introduction
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Labels
Footnotes
Including figures and pictures
Captions
Sub-figures
Creating tables
Citing bibliography resources
Endnotes