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This document provides an introduction to using LaTeX for formatting text, figures, and equations. It recommends using LaTeX for its high quality output, platform independence, and widespread use in academic publishing. Basic LaTeX commands are demonstrated for formatting text features like italics, bold, Greek letters, and equations. The document also provides instructions for running LaTeX to generate a PDF from a LaTeX source file.

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You Can Make The Text Smaller

This document provides an introduction to using LaTeX for formatting text, figures, and equations. It recommends using LaTeX for its high quality output, platform independence, and widespread use in academic publishing. Basic LaTeX commands are demonstrated for formatting text features like italics, bold, Greek letters, and equations. The document also provides instructions for running LaTeX to generate a PDF from a LaTeX source file.

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Pat Q.

Student
AME 20231
18 January 2013
This is a sample file in the text formatter LATEX. I require you to use it for the following reasons:

It produces the best output of text, figures, and equations of any program Ive seen.
It is machine-independent. It runs on Linux, Macintosh (see TeXShop), and Windows (see MiKTeX)
machines. You can e-mail ASCII text versions of most relevant files.
It is the tool of choice for many research scientists and engineers. Many journals accept LATEX sub-
missions, and many books are written in LATEX.

Some basic instructions are given next. Put your text in here. You can be a little sloppy about spacing. It
adjusts the text to look good. You can make the text smaller. You can make the text tiny.
Skip a line for a new paragraph. You can use italics (e.g. Thermodynamics is everywhere) or bold.
Greek letters are
a snap: , , , . Equations within text are easy A well known Maxwell thermodynamic

relation is T = v
s p You can also set aside equations like so:
.

p
s

du = T ds pdv, first law (1)


dq
ds . second law (2)
T
Eq. (??) is the second law. References1 are available. If you have an postscript file, say sample.figure.eps,
in the same local directory, you can insert the file as a figure. Figure ??, below, plots an isotherm for air
modeled as an ideal gas.

Figure 1: Sample figure plotting T = 300 K isotherm for air when modeled as an ideal gas.

Running LATEX
You can create a LATEX file with any text editor (vi, emacs, gedit, etc.). To get a document, you need
to run the LATEX application on the text file. The text file must have the suffix .tex On a Linux cluster
machine, this is done via the command
latex file.tex
This generates three files: file.dvi, file.aux, and file.log. The most important is file.dvi.
The finished product can be previewed in the following way. Execute the commands:
dvipdf file.dvi Linux System
This command generates file.pdf. Alternatively, you can use TeXShop on a Macintosh or MiKTeX on a
Windows-based machine. The .tex file must have a closing statement as below.

1 Lamport, L., 1986, LATEX: Users Guide & Reference Manual, Addison-Wesley: Reading, Massachusetts.

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