An Introduction to the LaTex typesetting system

Ziv Yaniv

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Last Modified October 2011

Who (Credit Where Credit is Due)

Donald E. Knuth

Tex late 70’s

Pictures courtesy of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/

LaTex early 80’s

Leslie Lamport

What

• A typesetting system, not a word processor.

• Pronounced “Lay-Tek” or “Lah-Tek”.

• Tex/LaTex central, Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): http://www.ctan.org/

Samples of LaTex

All samples taken from: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/

Where to Obtain

• Win, MikTex:http://www.miktex.org/

• Unix/Linux, Tex Live:http://tug.org/texlive/

• Mac, MacTex:http://tug.org/mactex/

Book Recommendation Corner

Free online substitutes:

• The EOS 1918 edition: http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html

• A (Not So) Short Guide to LaTeX2e : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/

Editors Specifically supporting LaTex

• Win: WinEdt (shareware), TexnicCenter (freeware).

• Mac: TexShop

• Unix/Linux: emacs, Lyx

Files Galore

*.cls (class file)*.sty (style file)*.bbl (bibliography file)

(auxiliary files for system use)*.aux, *.idx, *.toc, *.log

*.ps *.pdf

*.tex

*.dvi

Document Structure

1. Preamble 1. document class [article, report, book…],

2. packages [additional macros],

3. your additional macro definitions.

2. Document body.

Your First Document

Document Body

• \section{My first section}• \subsection{My first subsection}• \chapter{My first chapter}• \appendix• \footnote{My first footnote}• \label{firstLabel}• \ref{firstLabel}

Label-ref mechanism: When using labels and references you will need to run LaTex multiple times

(remember those auxiliary files).

Your Second Document

Basic Formatting

force new line and new page: \\ or \newline \newpage

bold text: \bf or \textbf{}

italicize text: \emph{} or \textit{} or \it

underline text: \ul, \underline{}

font sizes: \tiny, \scriptsize, \footnotesize, \small, \normalsize, \large, \Large, \LARGE, \huge, \Huge

lists:

\begin{itemize} \item The first item. \item The second item.\end{itemize}

\begin{enumerate} \item The first item. \item The second item.\end{enumerate}

Basic Formatting

Math

• Two important packages that add many useful macros:

\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{amssymb}

Math

Floating objects (Tables and Figures)

• Objects that cannot be broken across pages are referred to as floating:– \begin{table} \end{table}– \begin{figure} \end{figure}

• Table and Figure numbering are done for you.

• Referencing a floating object is done via the label-ref mechanism.

• Enhanced support of graphics, add \usepackage{graphicx}in preamble.

Floating objects (Tables and Figures)

Bibliography

• Manage bibliography using BibTex program.

*.tex *.bib

*.bblIn your *.tex file:

\bibliographystyle{plain}\bibliography{mybibliography}

Bibliography style defined in a ASCII text file(*.bst).

Bibliography

*.bib file – ASCII text file with entries in a human readable format. Entry types include @article, @book, @inproceedings, @mastersthesis, @techreport…:

@ARTICLE{yaniv2010c,

author = {Ziv Yaniv},

title = {Evaluation of Spherical Fiducial Localization in {C-arm} Cone-Beam

{CT} using Patient Data},

journal = {Med. Phys.},

year = {2010},

volume = {37},

pages = {5298--5305},

number = {10},

}

@INPROCEEDINGS{wiesner2007,

author = {Stefan Wiesner and Ziv Yaniv},

title = {Monitoring Patient Respiration using a Single Optical Camera},

booktitle = {Int. Conf.of the IEEE Eng. Med. Biol.},

year = {2007},

pages = {2740--2743},

}

JabRefGUI for bib file

http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

LaTex + BibTex

To obtain the final typeset file, with all references and citations numbered andin order run the following series of commands:1. Latex2. Bibtex3. Latex4. Latex

LaTex + BibTex

@ARTICLE{banovac2005, author = {Filip Banovac and Jonathan Tang and Sheng Xu and David Lindisch and

Ho Young Chung and Elliot B. Levy and Thomas Chang and Michael F.McCullough and Ziv Yaniv and Bradford J. Wood and Kevin Cleary},

title = {Precision targeting of liver lesions using a novel electromagneticnavigation device in physiologic phantom and swine},

journal = {Med. Phys.}, year = {2005}, volume = {32}, pages = {2698--2705}, number = {8},}

@ARTICLE{bansal2003, author = {Ravi Bansal and Lawrence H. Staib and Zhe Chen and Anand Rangarajan

and Jonathan Knisely and Ravinder Nath and James S. Duncan}, title = {Entropy-Based, Dual-Portal-to-3{DCT} Registration Incorporating Pixel

Correlation}, journal = {{IEEE} Trans. Med. Imag.}, year = {2003}, volume = {22}, pages = {29--49}, number = {1},}

@ARTICLE{yaniv2010c, author = {Ziv Yaniv}, title = {Evaluation of Spherical Fiducial Localization in {C-arm} Cone-Beam

{CT} using Patient Data}, journal = {Med. Phys.}, year = {2010}, volume = {37}, pages = {5298--5305}, number = {10},}

Bringing It all Together

LaTex sources for:

"Fiducial localization in C-arm based Cone-Beam CT", Z. Yaniv, SPIE Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Display, 2009.

Presenting Your Work

• Embed latex into your power point presentations:1. Insert formulas as pictures

• cannot change scale gracefully.

2. Use TexPPT (http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/)• gracefully change scale. • copy-paste from the paper you already wrote.

Summary

• This introduction has covered the basic functionality of LaTex and BibTex.

• These are standard tools in many scientific disciplines.

• Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN): http://www.ctan.org/

• Don’t start from scratch, base your documents on previous ones.