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Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming summarized
- 5. Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms Chapter 1 - Basic concepts Chapter 2 - Information structures Volume 2 - Seminumerical Algorithms Chapter 3 – Random Numbers Chapter 4 - Arithmetic Volume 3 - Sorting and Searching Chapter 5 – Sorting Chapter 6 - Searching
- 18. • LaTeX pronounced as Lah‐tek, or Lay‐tek • A typesetting program, not a word‐ processor • Current version : LaTeX2ε • Designed for producing beautiful books, theses, papers, articles... • De facto standard for writing academic papers • Based on TeX
- 20. LaTeX is not a word processor! LaTeX encourages authors not to worry about the appearance of their documents but to worry about content.
- 22. documentclass{article} title{A test document to learn LaTeX} author{V N Krishnachandran} date{19 February 2010} begin{document} maketitle Hello world! end{document} Create a text file like the one above and compile…
- 24. How To Run LaTeX • Create a text file with extension .tex, say myfile.tex • Compile myfile : latex myfile.tex This makes a file with extension .dvi • View the dvi file : xdvi myfile.dvi : yap myfile • Dvi ‐‐> PostScript : dvips myfile.dvi This creates a file with extension .ps • View PostScript : gv myfile (UNIX) : Use gsview
- 25. pdfLaTeX An extension of TeX which can be configured to directly generate PDF documents instead of DVI. All current TeX distributions including TeX live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX).
- 28. Document Class documentclass[options]{class} options = a4paper, 11pt, 12pt, 10pt, twocolumn, landscape,... class = article, report, book,... Sample commands
- 29. Start with begin{document} End with end{document} Typesetting Text or newline and newpage Bold textbf{……………} or bf Italics emph{…………} or textit{………} or it Underline underline{…………} or ul Sample commands
- 30. Sections section{…} = 1. Latex is Great subsection{…} = 1.1 Why Great subsubsection{…} = 1.1.1 Reason One chapter{…} ‐ To be used with book and report Titles, authors and footnotes title{…} author{…} footnote{…} maketitle Display Title and Author tableofcontents Generates TOC Sample commands
- 32. Font sizes tiny scriptsize footnotesize small normalsize large Large LARGE huge Huge Sample commands
- 34. begin{center} $$ y=frac{a^3+2c_{x}}{1+sqrt{b_{x}}} $$ vspace{0.2in} $$ Q=sum_{i=1}^{j}int_{mu}^{infty}f(x_{j})dx $$ vspace{0.2in} $$ Psi = oint_{- infty}^ {infty}f_{xy} ({frac{partial Qx}{partial Qy}})^{Im_{pi}^ prime} $$ end{center} Text in input file… Sample commands
- 35. Happy TeXing …