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Learn the basics of technical writing and how to write a technical paper using Latex. This guide covers grammar, vocabulary, translation, information inquiry, database, reading technical materials, and more.

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  1. Outline • Basic English • Introduction, Grammar, Vocabulary, Translation • Information Inquiry • Database • Reading Technical Materials • Communications, Signal processing, Networks, etc. • Technical Writing • How to write a technical paper • Latex • Software

  2. Latex • Download • Template • Forum http://www.ctex.org/HomePage http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html http://mirrors.cqu.edu.cn/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf https://ctan.org/ http://bbs.ctex.org/forum.php

  3. Latex • Basic information • Text • Special characters • Command • Comment • Run • Typesetting • Paragraph • Special characters • Sections • Cross referral • Other useful tips • Formula • New environment

  4. Basic information • Text • Just type the words as you do in the Word. • Consecutive blanks are displayed as one blank. • Special characters • Add ‘\’ to show special characters in the text, i.e., • Commands • Begins with ‘\’ and specific words. • E.g., \today returns the specific date, \textbf gives boldface characters, \alpha gives • Comments • The sentences following % are comments.

  5. Basic information • Run Latex • Run Latex over the xxx.tex file. • Make corrections if errors. Warnings are ok, but make sure that there is no fatal mistakes. • With dvi file available, run dvi2pdf over the xxx.tex file. • Document types • Article, report, slides • Onecolumn, twocolumn • 10pt, 12pt • Generally use the template for technical papers. • For large files, we may write different tex files for different parts, and use ‘\input’ to merge the tex files together.

  6. Typesetting • Paragraph • Separate the paragraphs manually with two Enter, or ‘\\’, or \newline • \newpage. • Special characters • ‘’ or `` ’’, \ldots, \~, ^o, -- • Commands included in Equation • Section • \section, \subsection, \subsubsection • Cross referral • \label{xx}, \ref{xx} • eq:xx, sec:xx, fig:xx, tab:xx • Other useful tips • \footnote, \underline, \emph • Unit: cm, mm, in, pt • Font size: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large,\Large, \LARGE, \huge, \Huge

  7. Typesetting • Other useful tips

  8. Typesetting • Other useful tips • \begin{center} … \end{center} • \flushlest, \flushright • \begin{itemize} \item ..\end{itemize} • \begin{enumerate}\item .. \end{enumerate} • \begin{description} \item.. \end{description} • \begin{tabular} …\end{tabular}, \hline, \cline, \caption • \pagestyle{..}, plain, headings, empty • \begin{spacing}{1.8} • \hspace, \vspace

  9. Formula • Commands • \begin{equation}\end{equation} • \begin{align}\end{align} • \begin{array}{ll}.. & ..\\ .. & ..\end{array} • Take advantage of the commands included in Equation for the special symbols • Eg., 1) a^2, a_2, \sqrt, \le, \ge, \in, \subset; 2) \alpha, \beta, \infty; 3) \overline, \underline, \overbrace, \underbrace, \rightarrow; 4) \dot, \cdot, \times, \frac, \sum, \integral; 5) \cos, \sin, \arg, \max, \min, \left,\right; 6) \big, \Big, \bigg, \Bigg, • Use \quad, \, \hspace to express blank. • No blank line is allowed.

  10. New Environment • newcommands • \newcommand{xx}{xxxxxx} • Eg., \newcommand{\E}{\mathbb{E}},; • \newtheorem{xx}{xxxxxx} • Eg., \newtheorem{\Exm}{Example}, \begin{Exm}\end{Exm}

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