@slide(layout=chapter-slide) @number 2 @title How does
LATEX work? @slide(layout=content-and-preview) @title WYSIWhat? @content ### What You See Is What You Get {data-category=Word} * Formatting with immediate visual feedback
### What You See Is What You Mean {data-category=LaTeX} * Separation of content and structure * Formatting only visible afterwards

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@preview ![](svg/chapter-02/xkcd-types-of-editors.png) @slide(layout=preview-only) @preview ![How to get the final document](svg/chapter-02/wysiwyg.svg){} @slide(layout=two-columns) @title What do we need? @column-one ### Editor writing our source code including all the commands that structure the text semantically [TeXstudio](http://www.texstudio.org/), [TeXMaker](https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/) @column-two ### Compiler takes the source code and creates a PDF document ready for publication [MiKTeX](http://miktex.org/), [MacTeX](http://tug.org/mactex/), [TeX Live](https://tug.org/texlive/) @slide(layout=wide-content) @title Commands @content General structure of a command: ``` {.hljs .lang-txt} \[]{} ``` ++ A few examples: ``` {.lang-tex .tex .hljs .fragment} \newpage % inserts a new page \textbf{bold text} % formats the text bold \documentclass[a4paper,12pt, landscape]{article} % configures the document class \frac{1}{4} % inserts a mathematical fraction ``` @slide(layout=content-only) @title Backslash @content You get the backslash by pressing AltGr + ß (Windows/Linux) Alt + Shift + 7 (MacOS)