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authorRamanan Balakrishnan <ramanan90@gmail.com>2016-10-22 02:04:23 +0530
committerven <vendethiel@hotmail.fr>2016-10-21 22:34:23 +0200
commit0659107a78bddd722df816daa01ee622fb4508d1 (patch)
tree564e361ba21ee130bad01fcddf26086afc433e78 /latex.html.markdown
parent8d0e3d6d5ce498d5f55fd8553c0775f9efe87e5f (diff)
[latex/en] minor typo fixes (#2481)
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@@ -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