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author | Ramanan Balakrishnan <ramanan90@gmail.com> | 2016-10-22 02:04:23 +0530 |
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committer | ven <vendethiel@hotmail.fr> | 2016-10-21 22:34:23 +0200 |
commit | 0659107a78bddd722df816daa01ee622fb4508d1 (patch) | |
tree | 564e361ba21ee130bad01fcddf26086afc433e78 /latex.html.markdown | |
parent | 8d0e3d6d5ce498d5f55fd8553c0775f9efe87e5f (diff) |
[latex/en] minor typo fixes (#2481)
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-rw-r--r-- | latex.html.markdown | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/latex.html.markdown b/latex.html.markdown index bb84a6d9..a3866892 100644 --- a/latex.html.markdown +++ b/latex.html.markdown @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Math has many symbols, far beyond what you can find on a keyboard; Set and relation symbols, arrows, operators, and Greek letters to name a few.\\ Sets and relations play a vital role in many mathematical research papers. -Here's how you state all y that belong to X, $\forall$ x $\in$ X. \\ +Here's how you state all x that belong to X, $\forall$ x $\in$ X. \\ % Notice how I needed to add $ signs before and after the symbols. This is % because when writing, we are in text-mode. % However, the math symbols only exist in math-mode. @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Here's how you state all y that belong to X, $\forall$ x $\in$ X. \\ \[a^2 + b^2 = c^2 \] My favorite Greek letter is $\xi$. I also like $\beta$, $\gamma$ and $\sigma$. -I haven't found a Greek letter that yet that \LaTeX \hspace{1pt} doesn't know +I haven't found a Greek letter yet that \LaTeX \hspace{1pt} doesn't know about! \\ Operators are essential parts of a mathematical document: @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ $$ ^{10}/_{7} $$ % \frac{numerator}{denominator} $$ \frac{n!}{k!(n - k)!} $$ \\ -We can also insert equations in an "equation environment". +We can also insert equations in an ``equation environment''. % Display math with the equation 'environment' \begin{equation} % enters math-mode @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ and look at the glorious glory that is a \LaTeX \hspace{1pt} pdf. Getting to the final document using \LaTeX \hspace{1pt} consists of the following steps: \begin{enumerate} - \item Write the document in plain text (the "source code"). + \item Write the document in plain text (the ``source code''). \item Compile source code to produce a pdf. The compilation step looks like this (in Linux): \\ \begin{verbatim} @@ -233,7 +233,10 @@ steps: A number of \LaTeX \hspace{1pt}editors combine both Step 1 and Step 2 in the same piece of software. So, you get to see Step 1, but not Step 2 completely. -Step 2 is still happening behind the scenes. +Step 2 is still happening behind the scenes\footnote{In cases, where you use +references (like Eqn.~\ref{eq:pythagoras}), you may need to run Step 2 +multiple times, to generate an intermediary *.aux file.}. +% Also, this is how you add footnotes to your document! You write all your formatting information in plain text in Step 1. The compilation part in Step 2 takes care of producing the document in the |