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Improving Postgraduate Learning – LaTeX Basics. Dr. WONG Tsz Yeung Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK. Who am I?. Start writing in LaTeX since September 2000. Documents written in LaTeX , including: Thesis ( M.Phil & Ph.D ); All research paper;
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Improving Postgraduate Learning – LaTeX Basics Dr. WONG TszYeung Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK
Who am I? • Start writing in LaTeX since September 2000. • Documents written in LaTeX, including: • Thesis (M.Phil & Ph.D); • All research paper; • A few of my lecture notes; • Countless assignment specifications, etc. • Use LaTeX mostly in Linux and Mac OS. IPL - LaTeX Basics
What have you got? • Every PC in the user area has the tools called: PCTeX. • We will stick with it for the coming 3 hours. • How good is it? • An integrated environment. • On-the-fly command suggestion. • How bad is it? • Not available for free! • An open source alternative: TexWorks. IPL - LaTeX Basics
User Area only: Start PC & PCTeX • Choose ENGLISH Windows. • Do you remember your PC LAN login and password? • Don’t worry! Our colleague will help! • Now visit the following link: • http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~tywong/IPL/basics/ • Download the files labeled [TEX], [JPG], and [EPS] to D: (the D drive) of your computer. IPL - LaTeX Basics
Starting PC & PCTeX • Starting PCTeX • Start All Programs Authoring Tools PCTeX32 • Don’t worry! We’ll wait. IPL - LaTeX Basics
Opening your downloads… • Open your downloaded with filename “latex_basics_start.tex”. IPL - LaTeX Basics
Opening your downloads… • Open your downloaded with filename “latex_basics_start.tex”. • You will learn LaTeXwith a template. • You will learn the core stuffs without typing too much. • Of course, starting with an empty project is also a good choice. • Let’s Rock! IPL - LaTeX Basics