tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45409503757808185612024-03-13T11:15:10.046-07:00M11 LaTeX SeminarJanuary 22, 2019, 2:30–3:50 p.m. in room 3420<br>Essex County College—Mathematics, Engineering Technologies and Computer SciencesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540950375780818561.post-1872550798856593142018-12-21T14:30:00.004-08:002022-01-23T09:11:09.174-08:00Getting LaTeX . . .<div><span face=""roboto_light" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/jGbvbN-xMnE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> overview if you need help with this website!]</span></span></span></div><span face=""roboto_light" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><div><span face=""roboto_light" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>Your preferences matter! There are many ways to use TeX/LaTeX . . .</span></span><br />
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Linux/UNIX</b>: Check your Linux/UNIX distributions software source for a TeX distribution, including LaTeX. You can also install the current </span><a href="https://www.tug.org/texlive" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TeX Live distribution</a><span style="background-color: white;"> directly---in fact, this may be advisable as many Linux/UNIX distributions only contain older versions of TeX Live; see </span><a href="https://repology.org/metapackage/texlive/versions" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Linux TeX Live package status</a><span style="background-color: white;"> for details.</span></span></li>
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mac OS X</b>: The </span><a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MacTeX</a><span style="background-color: white;"> distribution contains everything you need, including a complete TeX system with LaTeX itself and editors to write documents. This is what I use and the one I am most able to help with.</span></span></li>
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Windows</b>: Check out the </span><a href="http://miktex.org/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">MiKTeX</a><span style="background-color: white;"> or </span><a href="http://www.tug.org/protext/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">proTeXt</a><span style="background-color: white;"> or </span><a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TeX Live</a> <span style="background-color: white;">distributions; they contain a complete TeX system with LaTeX itself and editors to write documents.</span></span></li>
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<li><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Web</b>: LaTeX online services like </span><a href="http://papeeria.com/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Papeeria</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Overleaf</a><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><a href="https://www.sharelatex.com/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ShareLaTeX</a><span style="background-color: white;">, and </span><a href="https://latexbase.com/" style="color: #005db7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">LaTeX base</a><span style="background-color: white;"> offer the ability to edit, view, and download LaTeX files and resulting PDFs.</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540950375780818561.post-35146642572343958962018-12-21T14:00:00.037-08:002022-01-22T09:09:44.675-08:00M11 Seminar<b>What is LaTeX?</b><br />
LaTeX is an advanced document preparation system widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers, philosophers, linguists, economists, and other academic scholars. It is generally considered the fastest and most professional way to write documents containing lots of mathematical equations or different languages. It is also very robust at handling extensive documents. In LaTeX, input (mostly plain text) and output (mostly pdf) are split into different files. This typesetting system offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout, and bibliographies.<br />
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LaTeX was originally written in the early 1980s by Leslie Lamport at SRI International. It has become the dominant method for using TeX---relatively few people write in plain TeX anymore.<br />
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LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. To create a document in LaTeX, a .tex file must be made using a text editor. While most text editors can create a LaTeX document, many editors have been designed specifically for working with LaTeX.<br />
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<b>Seminar Organization</b><br />
An introduction will be given on January 22, 2019, in room 3420. A basic overview that will hopefully provide enough information to get those in attendance started.<br />
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<b>Installing LaTeX?</b><br />
An excellent <a href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Math-LaTeX-George-Gr%C3%A4tzer/dp/3319237950/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QPKJBMYE13DGBA44QBKE">textbook</a> written by George Grätzer, entitled <i>More Math Into LaTeX,</i> is available for purchase, and I do encourage you to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Math-LaTeX-George-Gr%C3%A4tzer/dp/3319237950/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QPKJBMYE13DGBA44QBKE">buy</a> this book, but for now, you might just want to download the <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/%7Ebannon/mathography/Math_into_LaTeX-4.zip">free online version</a> [7.2 MB]. Indeed, if you want to continue learning how to use LaTeX here at m11.mathography.org, you will absolutely need this free online textbook to get started. When you expand the <b>Math_into_LaTeX-4.zip</b> file you just downloaded, you'll be shocked to find a massive directory of files, but you just need the file within this directory named <b>Short_Course.pdf</b>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/dnnedIwgzDM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span><br />
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If you don't have a working version of LaTeX installed, you will have to skip forward in this e-book and start with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Appendix A</span>. This will outline the steps on how to install LaTeX. Mac OS X's typical installation consists of TEX Live and TeXShop, while a standard installation on Windows consists of WinEdt and MiKTeX. So please read <span style="font-weight: bold;">Appendix A</span> and get ready to start learning LaTeX.<br />
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Windows users should concentrate on section <span style="font-weight: bold;">A.1</span>, and Mac OS X users should focus on <span style="font-weight: bold;">A.2</span>. Yes, you need to get busy doing this because without having a running LaTeX installation, you won't be able to typeset <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/mathography/letter.tex">this</a> into <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/mathography/letter.pdf">that</a>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/K0uANXdLCaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span><br />
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<b>Assignment Schedule</b><br />
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When you're ready, you'll need to do the exercises listed below, in sequence, and then submit the LaTeX source for each exercise. You should name your exercises with the following convention,<br />
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where the ## should be a two-digit assignment number. When you're done, you should mail your assignment, as an attachment, to:<br />
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<b>m11@mathography.org</b></center>
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Before starting, I suggest that you download the <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student.zip">student</a> directory first. It includes all files and is nicely organized. It's going to be tough going at first, but if you read the lesson.##.tex and look at the output lesson.##.pdf for each class, you should figure out how to do each exercise. The exercise for each assignment is to reproduce the exercise.##.pdf using LaTeX. For each of these twelve assignments, you'll need to submit the LaTeX source. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Some excellent hints are available </span><a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/hints.zip">here</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!] </span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/N9K1R_NmVZs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="http://screencast.com/t/MzBmNzcwZj">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span><br />
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<li>METCS Seminar Orientation – January 22, 2019, room 3420: Read the <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/introduction/Introduction.pdf">introduction</a> and <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/acknowledgments/acknowledgments.pdf">acknowledgments</a> before proceeding forward. If you move on, please be aware that this will require a lot of work to complete!</li>
During the next two weeks, you should do the following: <ol>
<li>Read through the Forward, Preface, and Introduction of <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/Short_Course.pdf">Short_Course.pdf</a>. Write a short email to the book’s author (you need to cc m11@mathography.org) thanking him for providing these materials free of charge. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/wAF4V2XHF5Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span></li>
<li>Read Chapters 1 and 2 of <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/Short_Course.pdf">Short_Course.pdf</a>. Make sure you can do the examples presented in these readings. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/YBPCIAaauyY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span></li>
<li>Read Chapter 3 of <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/Short_Course.pdf">Short_Course.pdf</a>. Make sure you can do the examples presented in these readings. Try typesetting some of the mathematics presented. No need to memorize---you can always look it up when the need arises. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Tf2VooMvA1c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> if you need help!]</span></li>
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<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/01/lesson.01.tex">lesson.01.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/01/exercise.01.pdf">exercise.01.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Fdz34bQ0AZ0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/02/lesson.02.tex">lesson.02.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/02/exercise.02.pdf">exercise.02.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/khQwWYPcdf8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/03/lesson.03.tex">lesson.03.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/03/exercise.03.pdf">exercise.03.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/2jtudLPMybs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/04/lesson.04.tex">lesson.04.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/04/exercise.04.pdf">exercise.04.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/l4V6aY4I5Yc">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/05/lesson.05.tex">lesson.05.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/05/exercise.05.pdf">exercise.05.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/LPRAj_hf8u0">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/06/lesson.06.tex">lesson.06.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/06/exercise.06.pdf">exercise.06.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/AlBprt1qCSw">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/07/lesson.07.tex">lesson.07.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/07/exercise.07.pdf">exercise.07.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/d3DoQ_2A0BA">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/08/lesson.08.tex">lesson.08.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/08/exercise.08.pdf">exercise.08.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Lsm-HlyjkyY">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/09/lesson.09.tex">lesson.09.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/09/exercise.09.pdf">exercise.09.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/aLnc6GuS8BM">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/10/lesson.10.tex">lesson.10.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/10/exercise.10.pdf">exercise.10.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/9PanH7N803M">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/11/lesson.11.tex">lesson.11.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/11/exercise.11.pdf">exercise.11.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/MykMMaLOlvs">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Typeset and study <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/12/lesson.12.tex">lesson.12.tex</a> source; reproduce <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student/12/exercise.12.pdf">exercise.12.pdf</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[Here's a </span><a href="https://youtu.be/WQXDEAnXrnM">video</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">!]</span></li>
<li>Download <a href="http://faculty.essex.edu/~bannon/m11/student.zip">all files</a> and play around with folders named 13 and thesis. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">[<a href="https://youtu.be/OslqBKqt-HU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">13</a>, <a href="https://youtu.be/wusoflkMfxc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thesis</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">]</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4540950375780818561.post-84908237793095359542018-12-17T13:57:00.000-08:002018-12-21T08:12:42.859-08:00Forum . . .I am hopeful that this site and online course will facilitate a better understanding of how to use LaTeX. Please get involved and help others join in. Leave a comment---we all need to know who's on board . . .<br />
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There's also a <a href="http://m11.freeforums.net/">forum</a> where registered users can post and answer questions about each assignment. I am hopeful that we will form a community of learners that are willing to learn and teach together.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1