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How does
LATEX work?
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@title WYSIWhat?
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What You See Is What You Get
- Formatting with immediate visual Feedback
- Separation of content and structure
- Formatting only visible afterwards
Image source: xkcd
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@title What do we need?
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Editor
writing our source code including all the commands that structure the text semantically
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Compiler
takes the source code and creates a PDF document ready for publication
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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{<text>} % formats the text bold
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % configures the character encoding
\frac{<numerator>}{<denominator>} % inserts a mathematical fraction
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@title Backslash
@content You get the backslash by pressing
AltGr + ß (Windows/Linux)
Alt + Shift + 7 (MacOS)
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@title Optional parameters
@content Square brackets may contain different numbers of optional parameters:
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% configures the text encoding
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
% configures the document class
\includegraphics[width=12cm,height=4cm]{image.png}
% embeds the image file "image.png"
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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 \\
Geburtsdatum: \\ % TODO: insert
Geburtsort: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
% profile end
Shortcuts: Ctrl + T and Ctrl + U
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@title Software installation
@content Please install the compiler first (MikTeX on Windows, MacTeX on MacOS, TeX Live on Linux), followed by the editor. In this workshop, we use TeXstudio.
- MikTeX (Windows): https://miktex.org/
- MacTeX (MacOS): http://tug.org/mactex/
- TeX Live (Linux/all OS): https://tug.org/texlive/
- TeXstudio: https://www.texstudio.org/
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@title First steps with LaTeX
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- ++ If necessary: Install now!
- ++ Download the file
aufgabe01.texfrom the VC and put it into a new folder. - ++ Open it in TeXstudio.
- ++ Compile it by pressing ⏩.
- ++ What happened to the folder that contains the file?