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Improving Postgraduate Learning. LaTeX Advanced – Thesis Preparation Michael FUNG ( pffung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk ). LaTeX. A typesetting system for professional writing and publication Commercial product PCTeX32 ( www.pctex.com ) FREE open source software MiKT E X ( www.miktex.org )
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Improving Postgraduate Learning LaTeX Advanced – Thesis Preparation Michael FUNG (pffung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)
LaTeX • A typesetting system for professional writing and publication • Commercial product • PCTeX32 (www.pctex.com) • FREE open source software • MiKTEX (www.miktex.org) • Red Hat Linux (including LaTeX package) (www.redhat.com)
Getting Started… • Boot up a computer • Choose English version Windows • Login with your ITSC PC-LANusername and password • Wait…
Get Course Material • Ref: CUHK GS Platform https://www.gradsch.cuhk.edu.hk/pgstudent/main.htm • http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~pffung/ipl/latex • Download and save this file to D:\ IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab.zip • Extract the content of the zip file to D:\ • Then, … DELETE the zip file in D:\
Start PCTeX32 • StartAll ProgramsAuthoring ToolsPCTeX32 • Do this once to register the program
Check Your Files • Open the folder “My Computer”… D:\IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab\thesis_start • Your thesis chapters shall be put into separate sub-folders, like mine • The thesis text, figures, tables, etc. have been prepared beforehand • We are now going to bind them together into a thesis
Look At the Master File • Double click on the file thesis.tex • PCTeX32 will be called up again with the file opened • This is our master file • Let’s start putting in the ingredients to make our sandwich
The Meat • The Master file glues other parts together • Check the Project window for other files • Cover Page • Thesis Chapters • \chapter • Preamble • Page Numbering and Style • Appendix
Bibliography • Glance through final.bib • Item index • Bibtex • Choose Master file before typesetting the bibliography • Citation • \cite{article2001}
Sugar • Definition \mydef • Chapter \note • \footnote • \chapterend
Salt • Beware of undefined references • Reorganize the paragraphs and the figures/tables to deal with the text underflow and overflow problem
Printing and Publishing • You can print your thesis with PCTeX32 • There are tools for converting your thesis into different formats • PostScript (PS) and • Portable Document Format (PDF) • You are ready to publish your work!