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LaTeX
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Lesson 1
Your first document
LaTeX is how most maths and science documents are made. You do not drag boxes around; you write plain text with commands in it, and a program turns that into a…
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Lesson 2
Sections and titles
Real documents are split into sections so a reader can follow them, and the command is simply section with the title in braces. Look at what came out: a…
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Lesson 3
Bold, italic and emphasis
To change how a word looks, you wrap it in a command — the same backslash, name and braces from lesson one. Textbf sets it bold. Textit sets it italic. Texttt…
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Lesson 4
Bulleted and numbered lists
A list is your first ENVIRONMENT, which is the second shape in LaTeX after the command. It opens with begin and a name, holds your content, and closes with end…
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Lesson 5
Maths — your first formula
This is what LaTeX is famous for. Put dollar signs around something and everything between them is set as MATHS. Look at what changes: the letters lean, the…
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Lesson 6
Fractions, roots and sums
Before the maths, one new idea: a package. A package adds commands LaTeX does not have on its own, and you load it in the preamble with usepackage. Amsmath is…
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Lesson 7
Aligning equations
When you show working, a reader follows it by the equals signs. Set each line as its own equation and they scatter. Line them up instead and the eye runs…
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Lesson 8
Tables
A table is the tabular environment, and it takes something no other environment has taken so far: a column specification, in braces after the name. Those…
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Lesson 9
Drawing with TikZ
You can draw diagrams with code, without any image file, using the TikZ package. Load it once, then draw inside a tikzpicture environment. Draw from nought…
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Lesson 10
Labels and cross-references
Lesson two showed headings renumbering themselves, and left a gap. Here it is. The sentence says "as shown in Section 2". Add a section above Methods and…
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Lesson 11
Citations and bibliography
Academic writing has to say where facts came from, and LaTeX handles it with the idea you learned last lesson. Look at the two pairs: label and ref for a…
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Lesson 12
Page layout and margins
Before the command, the shape. The outer rectangle is the paper. The lines inside it are the text block — where words are allowed to go. And the gap between…
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Lesson 13
Colour and links
Colour comes from the xcolor package. Load it in the preamble, then wrap words in textcolor with the colour name first and the words second. Notice the shape…
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Lesson 14
Capstone: a one-page report
Look at what thirteen lessons have given you. Section, for structure that numbers itself. Textbf and emph, for the way words look. Dollars and frac, for the…