latex-wochenende/slides/basic-documents.en.md

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@title Basic documents

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@title Commands

@content General structure of a command:

\<command>[<optional_parameters>]{<obligatory_parameters>}

++ A few examples:

\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

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@title Backslash

@content Assuming a German keyboard layout, you get the backslash by pressing

AltGr + ß (Windows/Linux)

Alt + Shift + 7 (MacOS)

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@title Preamble & document environment

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👁 Every LaTeX document is composed of

• a preamble: global settings (document class, encoding, language, page format, additional packages, …) and
• a document environment: content of the document.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}

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@title Document class

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\documentclass[<parameter>]{<document_class>}

For example:

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,landscape]{article}

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@title Encoding

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[t1]{fontenc}

• The character encoding determines which characters are available.
• ASCII contains no special characters like German umlauts.
• UTF-8 is a universal encoding.

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@title Language

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\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

• The package babel provides language-specific information (e. g., hyphenation, special characters, font changes, translated labels like ‘chapter,’ ‘table of contents’ or ‘figure’).
• ngerman is the German new spelling.

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@title Continuous Text

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Continous text can be written directly ↲
in the source code. ↲
Simple line breaks ↲
are ignored, ↲
just as     multiple space characters. ↲
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An empty line creates a new paragraph ↲
which has an indentation by default. ↲
Manual line breaks can be forced ↲
using two backslashes, but this use ↲
is strongly discouraged \\ ↲
within continuous text.

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@title Comments

@content After a percent sign, the rest of the line is ignored by the compiler. It is called a comment and does not appear in the resulting document.

% profile start
Name: Donald Knuth \\
Date of birth: \\ % TODO: insert
Place of birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
% profile end

Shortcuts: Ctrl + T and Ctrl + U

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@category Caution!

@title Reserved characters

@content Some characters do things in LaTeX:

# $ % ^ & _ { } ~ \

50% is one half.

Solution: prefix with ‘\’:

50\% is one half.

Does not work for ‘\\’, use \textbackslash instead. Also: Consider using a thin space between numbers and units (50\,\%).

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@title Sections and chapters

@content Texts are structured by beeing subdivided in sections and chapters. Always available:

\section{Level 1}
\subsection{Level 2}
\subsubsection{Level 3}
\paragraph{Level 4}
\subparagraph{Level 5}

Additionally, for some document classes:

\chapter{Chapter}
\part{Part}

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@title Title page

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\title{The World of Truffles}
\author{Fooboar Rüssel \and Fachschaft WIAI}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}

• The values for the entries are stored in the preamble.
• \maketitle typesets the title page within the document environment.
• The exact appearance depends on the document class.
• Multiple authors can be joined with \and.
• If no date is given, the current date will be used. A different date can be defined with \date{}.

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@title Front matter

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\title{The World of Truffles}
\author{Fooboar Rüssel 
\and Fachschaft WIAI}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
    \maketitle
    \section{Truffle hunt}
    \subsection{Hunt with a pig}
    \subsection{Hunt without a pig}
    Why would you do that?
    \section{Truffle recipes}
    My favorite recipe
\end{document}

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@title Registers

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\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

• automatic numbering
• elements with an asterisk (*) are hidden from the register: e. g. \section*{}.
• generally requires two rounds of compilation

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@title Table of contents

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\begin{document}
    \tableofcontents
    \section{Truffle hunt}
    The first section.
    \subsection{Hunt with a pig}
    A subsection.
    \subsection{Hunt without a pig}
    Another subsection.
    \subsubsection[But why?]{Why would 
    you do that?}
    Sub-subsection.
    \section{Truffle recipes}
    My favorite recipe
\end{document}

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@title Structure your document and text

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• Open the file document-structure.tex. It is located in the directory exercises/basic-document-structure.
• Wrap the entire text in a document environment and insert the following preamble.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

• In TeXstudio, right click on the file and select “Set as explicit root document.” Next, compile the file.
• As you may already have noticed, paragraphs are marked as ‘\\’. Use real paragraphs instead.
• Time to structure our document! Use LaTex commands to declare all headings (\section, \subsubsection, etc.).
• Add a table of contents to your document.

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@title Document classes

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• There are also other document classes than article.
• Based on the document class, the layout of the generated pdf file changes.
• Normally spelled classes adhere to American English layout norms.
• scr document classes usually adhere to European layout norms.

Following document classes are available:

• scrartcl, article for short documents
• scrreprt, report for longer documents
• scrbook, book for books
• beamer for presentations

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@title Languages

@content A document can use multiple languages at once:

\usepackage[ngerman, swedish, ukrainian, greek, english]{babel}

To switch languages:

\selectlanguage{<language a>}
\selectlanguage{<language b>}

Embedded Text in another language:

\selectlanguage{<language a>}
\foreignlanguage{<language b>}{Text of language B in a text of language A}

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@title Languages — an example

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\today
\selectlanguage{ngerman}
\today
\selectlanguage{swedish}
\today
\selectlanguage{ukrainian}
\today
\selectlanguage{greek}
\today
\selectlanguage{english}
\today

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@title Headlines and the table of contents

@content With an asterisk, there is no numbering and no entry in the table of contents:

\section*{No entry in table of contents}

You can also provide an alternative title for the table of contents:

\section[Entry in table of contents]
{Actual chapter heading}

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@title Headers and footers

@content The fancyhdr package helps us with that.

% activate in general
\pagestyle{fancy}     

% apply to the first page as well
\thispagestyle{fancy} 

% reset values
\fancyhead{} % and/or \fancyfoot{}
\fancyhead[L]{Left header}
\fancyfoot[C]{Center footer}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}

A comprehensive tutorial can be found on Overleaf.

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@title Make it fit your needs

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• Add a title to the document.
• Make today's date appear in a language of your choice.
• Hide one section title in the table of contents.
• Add a short title to a different section title.
• Split the text in two columns (keyword: twocolumn).
• Add a header with the title on the right and a footer with the page number on the left.
• Try out what changes when you change the document class.
• Research the possibilities of traditional and modern beamer presentation templates.