Improving Postgraduate

Learning

LaTeX Advanced – Thesis Preparation

Michael FUNG

(pffung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)

LaTeX A typesetting system for professional

writing and publication Commercial product

– PCTeX32 (www.pctex.com) FREE open source software

– MiKTEX (www.miktex.org)– Red Hat Linux (including LaTeX package)

(www.redhat.com)

Getting Started… Boot up a computer

Choose English version Windows

Login with your ITSC PC-LAN username and password

Wait…

Get Course Material Ref: CUHK GS Platform

https://www.gradsch.cuhk.edu.hk/pgstudent/main.htm

http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~pffung/ipl/latex

Download and save this file to D:\IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab.zip

Extract the content of the zip file to D:\ Then, … DELETE the zip file in D:\

Start PCTeX32 StartAll ProgramsAuthoring ToolsPCTeX32

Do this once to register the program

Check Your Files Open the folder “My Computer”…D:\IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab\thesis_start

Your thesis chapters shall be put into separate sub-folders, like mine

The thesis text, figures, tables, etc. have been prepared beforehand

We are now going to bind them together into a thesis

Look At the Master File Double click on the file thesis.tex

PCTeX32 will be called up again with the file opened

This is our master file

Let’s start putting in the ingredients to make our sandwich

The Meat The Master file glues other parts together Check the Project window for other files

Cover Page Thesis Chapters

– \chapter Preamble Page Numbering and Style Appendix

Bibliography Glance through final.bib

– Item index

Bibtex– Choose Master file before typesetting the

bibliography

Citation– \cite{article2001}

Sugar Definition \mydef

Chapter \note

\footnote

\chapterend

Salt Beware of undefined references

Reorganize the paragraphs and the figures/tables to deal with the text underflow and overflow problem

Printing and Publishing You can print your thesis with PCTeX32

There are tools for converting your thesis into different formats– PostScript (PS) and– Portable Document Format (PDF)

You are ready to publish your work!