LaTeX

LaTeX (pronounced /ˈleɪtɛk/ or /ˈlɑːtɛk/) is a document markup language and document preparation system. It was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport (LamportTeX) at SRI International. It has become the dominant method for using TeX typesetting program (Donald Knuth) —few people write in plain TeX anymore. The current version is LaTeX2e. LaTeX is widely used by scientists and engineers in academic documents and publications because of the quality of typesetting achievable by TeX.

Latex installation

Latex installation how-to (Windows and Linux).

Remember installing hyphenation on your language ((1) texlive-lang-spanish, (2) babel is already in Ubuntu defaults)

Latex Bascis

Read the Latex Basic Kit.

\documentclass[options]{class}

% packages

\usepackage[english]{babel}    % Document language (word splitting, basic titles: abstract…)
%\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{ucs}        % Use unicode
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    % Character encoding (use utf8x [extended] if utf8 does not work, in current versions are equivalent)

%\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Windows default char encoding

\usepackage{float}                 % Strict placement with H option (overrides h)

\usepackage{graphicx}        % To include eps graphics (TODO study options)
The following macro sets the font size and the line spacing separately.

\def\setsize{\csname @setfontsize\endcsname \setsize}

Its usage is like this:

\setsize{18}{24}

NOTE: Use it insede an environment

Useful Tricks

Accents \’{a} = á

\~{n} = ñ

Open marks: ?` = ¿

To shorten a long cite use: \shortcite{} or to use only the year use \citeyear{}

To avoid breaking of a space use: Chapter~one

To avoid breaking of a word use: \mbox{NASA}

Latex Presentations Beamer

Latex presentations with Beamer.

Latex Bibliography BIBTEX

Latex Bibliography BIBTEX.

Latex Graphics EPS

The Encapsulated PostScript (eps). (cuanto + antigua sea la version eps + compatible)

Latex 2 Html

Install tex4ht (apt-get) and then use: htlatex file.tex (MAY BE DEPRECATED)

(CONSIDER OTHER OPTIONS)

Latex Extras

Install Latex Style files (sty)

Tabbing (use tabs)

Make a professional looking cv using latex.

FONTS IN LATEX

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{bookman} or {times} or {uarial} or {helvet} or 

usage:

{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont Helvetica looks like this}
{\fontfamily{ppl}\selectfont Palatino looks like this}

Default encoding (OT1)

Default font (Computer Modern, CM)

encoding (OT1, T1, OML, OMS, OMX): related to char order… T1 is the most common.

family (sans, arial, times): It is the font itself

Computer Modern Roman cmr
Computer Modern Sans cmss
Computer Modern Typewriter cmtt
Computer Modern Math Italic  cmm
Computer Modern Math Symbols cmsy
Computer Modern Math Extensions cmex
Adobe Times ptm
Adobe Helvetica phv
Adobe Courier  pcr
series (medium, bold, condensed …) (m,b,c…)

shape (normal, italic, bold, smallcaps…) (n, it, bf, sc….) \textbf \textit…

size (pt, px,…) 10pt, 1.5in …

Author command   Attribute Value in article class
\textrm{..} or \rmfamily  family   cmr
\textsf{..} or \sffamily  family   cmss
\texttt{..} or \ttfamily  family   cmtt
\textmd{..} or \mdseries   series  m
\textbf{..} or \bfseries   series  bx
\textup{..} or \upshape  shape    n
\textit{..} or \itshape  shape    it
\textsl{..} or \slshape  shape    sl
\textsc{..} or \scshape  shape    sc
size                   \tiny           5pt
size \scriptsize            7pt
size
\footnotesize            8pt
size
\small           9pt
size
\normalsize            10pt
size
\large           12pt
size
\Large           14.4pt
size
\LARGE           17.28pt
size
\huge           20.74pt
size
\Huge           24.88pt