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Practical LaTeX covers the material that is needed to compose everyday LaTeX documents. This accessible manual is friendly, easy to read, and is designed to be as portable as LaTeX itself. A short chapter, Mission Impossible, introduces LaTeX documents and presentations. Read these 30 pages; you should then be able to compose your own work in LaTeX. The remainder of the book delves deeper into the topics outlined in Mission Impossible while avoiding technical subjects. Chapters on presentations and illustrations are a highlight, as is the introduction of LaTeX on an iPad. Students, faculty, and professionals in the worlds of mathematics and technology will benefit greatly from this new, practical introduction to LaTeX. George Grtzer, author of More Math into LaTeX (now in its 4th edition) and First Steps in LaTeX, has been a LaTeX guru for over a quarter of century. From the reviews of More Math into LaTeX: ``There are several LaTeX guides, but this one wins hands down for the elegance of its approach and breadth of coverage. --Amazon.com, Best of 2000, Editors Choice ``A very helpful and useful tool for all scientists and engineers. --Review of Astronomical Tools ``A novice reader will be able to learn the most essential features of LaTeX sufficient to begin typesetting papers within a few hours of time ... An experienced TeX user, on the other hand, will find a systematic and detailed discussion of all LaTeX features, supporting software, and many other advanced technical issues. --Reports on Mathematical Physics.
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Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
George Grtzer Practical LaTeX 10.1007/978-3-319-06425-3_11. Mission Impossible
George Grtzer 1
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Toronto, ON, Canada
It happens to most of us. We live a happy life without LaTeX and then, all of a sudden, we have to do something urgent that requires it.
If you are a student, maybe your professor turned to you and said I need the solutions to these exercises typed up and distributed to the class by tomorrow and the solutions are chock-full of formulas, difficult to do in Word.
Or you are a researcher whose documents have always been typed up by a secretary. You have to attend a conference and give a presentation. Your secretary is gone due to a budget cut
In my case, it was a letter (this was before e-mail) from the American Mathematical Society, in which they informed me that my paper, written in Word, was accepted for publication. The AMS will publish the paper in nine months. However a LaTeX version would be published in three months!
The mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get started really fast in LaTeX. Our goal is to produce in LaTeX the little article printed on the next page.
Relax, this chapter will not self-destruct in five seconds. 
1.1 Getting started
1.1.1 Your LaTeX
Are you sitting in front of your computer, your LaTeX implementation up and running? If you use a UNIX computer, you surely are. If you are in front of a PC (with the Windows operating system) or a Mac, point your Internet browser at tug.org . Choose to download MikTeX for a PC and MacTeX for a Mac. Follow the easy instructions (and be patient, these are big downloads) and you are done.
Even better, find a friend who can help.
On a PC, work\test refers to the subfolder test of the folder work . On a UNIX computer and on a Mac, work/test designates this subfolder. To avoid having to write every subfolder twice, we use work/test , with apologies to our PC readers.
1.1.2 Sample files
We work with a few sample documents. Download them from CTAN.org , search for Practical LaTeX , or go to the Springer page for this book, and click on the link:
http://extras.springer.com/2014/978-3-319-06424-6+
I suggest you create a folder, samples , on your computer to store the downloaded sample files, and another folder called work , where you will keep your working files. Copy the documents from the samples to the work folder as needed. In this book, the samples and work folders refer to the folders you have created.
One of the sample files is sample.sty . Make sure it is in the work folder when you typeset a sample document.
1.1.3 Editing cycle
Watch a friend type a document in LaTeX and learn the basic steps.
A text editor is used to create a LaTeX source file . A source file might look like this:
\documentclass{amsart}
\begin{document}
Then $\delta$ is a congruence relation. I can type formulas!
\end{document}
Note that the source file is different from a typical word processor file. All characters are displayed in the same font and size.
Your friend typesets the source file ( tells the application to produce a typeset version ) and views the result on the monitor :
Then is a congruence relation. I can type formulas!
The editing cycle continues. Your friend goes back and forth between the source file and the typeset version, making changes and observing the results of these changes.
The file is viewed/printed. View the typeset version as a pdf file, print it if necessary, to create a paper version.
If LaTeX finds a mistake when typesetting the source file, it records this in the log file . The log window (some call it console ) displays a shorter version.
Various LaTeX implementations have different names for the source file, the text editor, the typeset file, the typeset window, the log file, and the log window. Become familiar with these names, so you can follow along with our discussions.
1.1.4 Typing the source file
A source file is made up of text , formulas , and instructions ( commands ) to LaTeX.
For instance, consider the following variant of the first sentence of this paragraph:
A source file is made up of text, formulas (e.g.,
$\sqrt{5}$), and \emph{instructions to} \LaTeX.
This typesets as
A source file is made up of text, formulas (e.g., 
), and instructions to LaTeX.
), and instructions to LaTeX.In this sentence, the first part
A source file is made up of text, formulas (e.g. ,
is text. Then
$\sqrt{5}$
is a formula
), and
is text again. Finally,
\emph{instructions to} \LaTeX.
are instructions. The instruction \emph is a command with an argument , while the instruction \LaTeX is a command without an argument. Commands, as a rule, start with a backslash ( \ ) and tell LaTeX to do something special. In this case, the command \emph emphasizes its argument (the text between the braces). Another kind of instruction to LaTeX is called an environment. For instance, the commands
\begin{center} \end{center}
enclose a center environment; the contents (the text typed between these two commands) are centered when typeset.
In practice, text, formulas, and instructions (commands) are mixed. For example,
My first integral: $\int \zeta^{2}(x) \, dx$.
is a mixture of all three; it typesets as
My first integral: 2 ( x ) dx .
Creating a document in LaTeX requires that we type in the source file. So we start with the keyboard, proceed to type a short note, and learn some simple rules for typing text in LaTeX.
1.2 The keyboard
The following keys are used to type the source file: 
You can also use the following punctuation marks: 
and the space bar, the Tab key, and the Return (or Enter) key.
Finally, there are thirteen special keys that are mostly used in LaTeX commands: 
If you need to have these characters typeset in your document, there are commands to produce them. For instance, $ is typed as \$ , the underscore, _, is typed as \_ , and % is typed as \% . Only @ requires no special command, type @ to print @; see Section A.3.3.
There are also commands to produce composite characters, such as accented characters, for example , which is typed as \"{a} . LaTeX prohibits the use of other keys on your keyboard unless you have special support for it. See the text accent table in Section A.2. If you want to use accented characters in your source file, then you must use the inputenc package.
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