Latex Tutorial on March 10,24, and 31, 2008
Latex Tutorial (updated from March 28th) sample code: Latex Tutorial.tex (updated)
We will need the following two graphs for Monday, March 31st: scatterplot.pdf, boxplot.eps
sample quiz code: sample quiz.tex
The following web page contains extended information on Latex including how to install it, books, documentation, etc.:
Some online tutorials (there exist plenty of them)
Short Math guide to Latex provided by the American Mathematical Society (http://www.ams.org/tex/amslatex.html)
LaTeX tutorial by Jeff Clark: http://frodo.elon.edu/tutorial/tutorial.pdf
A LaTeX documentation Guide: http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/
Including Graphics into Latex Documents
an extensive tutorial by Keith Reckdahl can be found on this web page: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
Questions that came up during the Latex Tutorial
| Question | Answer |
| Getting a table of contents. | Type the command \tableofcontents after the \begin{document} statement |
| Changing the line spacing of the document from single to double. |
placing the following command anywhere
before the \begin{document} statement will change the setting for the entire
document: for more information have a look at this site: |