Learning Latex

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Writing a Paper with L TEX

Joe Struss
Jan. 28, 2011

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1 Creating a Paper—
The Basics
1.1 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.2 The Document Wrapper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.3 The Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2 Making Changes to a Paper
2.1 Common Documentclass Options . .
2.2 Style Alterations to a Documentclass
2.3 Helpful Document Commands . . . .
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3 Other Parts of the Paper
3.1 Title Page . . . . . . . .
3.2 Bibliography . . . . . .
3.3 Mathematics . . . . . .
3.4 Dividing your paper into

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4 Mathematics Power
4.1 Lining up on a decimal point . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.2 Under-/Over-Brackets and Parentheses . . . . . . . .
4.3 Hypothesis and Bold Lowercase Greek Characters .
4.4 Putting a Box around a Parbox with Math Formula
4.5 The Amsmath and Latexsym Packages . . . . . . . .

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5 Accents and Writing in Espa˜ ol with the Babel Package n 21
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5.1 General L TEX Accents and Babel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.2 Using Spanish Babel: An Extended Example . . . . . . . . . 22

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6 Creating a Presentation with
6.1 The Slides Documentclass .
6.2 The Beamer Documentclass
6.3 3-D Objects . . . . . . . . .

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