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!