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diff --git a/latex.html.markdown b/latex.html.markdown index 49200968..98abc5a1 100644 --- a/latex.html.markdown +++ b/latex.html.markdown @@ -181,7 +181,9 @@ Summations and Integrals are written with sum and int commands: \section{Figures} Let's insert a figure. Figure placement can get a little tricky. +Basic options are [t] for top, [b] for bottom, [h] for here (approximately). I definitely have to lookup the placement options each time. +% See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions for more details \begin{figure}[H] % H here denoted the placement option. \centering % centers the figure on the page @@ -198,13 +200,21 @@ We can also insert Tables in the same way as figures. \begin{table}[H] \caption{Caption for the Table.} % the {} arguments below describe how each row of the table is drawn. - % Again, I have to look these up. Each. And. Every. Time. - \begin{tabular}{c|cc} + % The basic is simple: one letter for each columns, to control alignment: + % basic options are: c, l, r and p for centered, left, right and paragraph + % optionnally, you can add a | for a vertical line + % See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables for more details + \begin{tabular}{c|cc} % here it means "centered | vertical line, centered centered" Number & Last Name & First Name \\ % Column rows are separated by & \hline % a horizontal line 1 & Biggus & Dickus \\ 2 & Monty & Python \end{tabular} + % it will approximately be displayed like this + % Number | Last Name First Name + % -------|--------------------------- % because of \hline + % 1 | Biggus Dickus + % 2 | Monty Python \end{table} \section{Getting \LaTeX{} to not compile something (i.e.\ Source Code)} @@ -218,7 +228,8 @@ environment. \begin{verbatim} print("Hello World!") a%b; % look! We can use % signs in verbatim. - random = 4; #decided by fair random dice roll + random = 4; #decided by fair random dice roll, https://www.xkcd.com/221/ + See https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/221:_Random_Number \end{verbatim} \section{Compiling} @@ -244,6 +255,7 @@ 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! +% with a simple \footnote{...} command. They are numbered ¹, ², ... by default. 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 @@ -265,6 +277,27 @@ There exists two main types of links: visible URL \\ This package also produces list of thumbnails in the output pdf document and active links in the table of contents. +\section{Writing in ASCII or other encodings} + +By default, historically LaTeX accepts input which are pure ASCII, +meaning without accents (à, è etc) and non-latin symbols. + +It is easy to incert accents and basic latin symbols, with backslash shortcuts +Like \,c, \'e, \`A, \ae and \oe etc. % for ç, é, À, etc +% See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters#Escaped_codes for more + +To write directly in UTF-8, when compiling with pdflatex, use +\begin{verbatim} + \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} +\end{verbatim} +The selected font has to support the glyphs used for your document, you have to add +\begin{verbatim} + \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} +\end{verbatim} + +Not that there also exists LuaTeX and XeLaTeX that were designed to have builtin +support for UTF-8 and case ease your life if you don't write in a latin alphabet. + \section{End} That's all for now! |