Latex Basics or Document

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 LaTeX
 LaTeX is a high-quality open source typesetting software that
produces professional prints and PDF files.
 Create high-quality and professional-looking texts, articles,
and books for business and science using LaTeX
 It is powerful Packages for papers, presentations, spreadsheets
 Quite similar to HTML in its formatting, LaTeX is one of the
most commonly used text editor in the academia.
How LaTeX works?
You write your document in plain
text with commands that describe
its structure and meaning
 Advantages of LaTeX

 Produces aesthetically beautiful documents.

 Management of Internal References. ...
 Management of Citations.
 Once we learned it is much faster and more intuitive.
 It is platform independent.
 Complex structure such as footnotes, references, table of contents,
and bibliographies can be easily generated.
Disadvantages of LaTeX

 Fairly steep learning curve. ‫صعوبة تعلمه الى حدما‬

 Latex will have difficulty reviewing your

word ‫ال يوفر مراجعة دقيقة لكتاباتك مثل ال‬
manuscripts.
library ‫ يحتاج الى‬style ‫تغيير الخط‬
 Layout changes are difficult.
 Many features require libraries.
 Customizing is a tedious process. ‫التخصيص ألجزاء معينة صعب‬
Differences between LaTeX and Microsoft Word
LaTeX Word

speed small docs, speed big Slow, fast Fast, slow

docs with graphics

Ease Of Use Initially is difficult, but after learning Basic Word features are very easy , but
become so fast Using advanced features like automatic
numbering, links, and citations require a
comparable learning time to LaTeX

Good for most purposes but its far from provides you with professional layout
Layout Quality professional.

all commonly and most rarely Used Shortage as Bibliography , endnote,

scientific features features.

LaTeX editors exist for all types of Word developer makes it easy withal
systems and are highly compatible with program, but not compatible with
compatibility all OS. different OS
Latex Editors

Definition

Tools allow users to define formatting of text before hand through markup-level instructions
and once the content is inserted, the document is ready to be exported as a PDF

Remarkable Tools
1. TeXmaker.
2. TeXstudio
3. TeXworks
4. Overleaf
5. VerbTeX
6. LaTeX Base
7. Emacs
8. LaTeX Workshop
9. miktex
Latex Examples

Figures

Equations

Items
Latex Examples

Tables

Inside text

Reference
Reference sec
How LaTeX works?
Latex For Windows
MiKTeX
MiKTeX is a typesetting system for the Windows.
Download from www.miktex.org for free
It is generally recommended to install MiKTeX first, then WinEdt.
WinEdt
WinEdt is a text editor.
WinEdt creates the source file (.tex and others).
Download from www.winedt.com for free for 30 days.
WinEdt costs $30.

Latex For Mac

TexShop
Download for free
http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
Includes everything!