Latex
Environment Setup:
Editing LaTeX on Mac using Sublime and Skim
Install Package Control in Sublime Text
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Go to Package Control website and copy the code in the gray block.
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Open Sublime Text.
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Use shortcut “control+
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Paste the code you just copied into the control panel.
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Press “Enter”. Then quit and restart Sublime Text.
Install LaTex Tools
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After Sublime Text restarts, press “Command+Shift+P” to open the Command pallet. This step can also be done through the Tools dropdown menu.
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Type “Install Package” in the command pallet and press Enter.
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After completion, type “LaTeX Tools”, find this item and press Enter to install.
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Quit and restart Sublime Text.
Install Skim
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Go to Skim to download and install Skim
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Open Skim, in the menu bar go to Skim > Preference > Sync
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In the preset menu select Sublime Text skim.
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Close the above window.
Basic Usage of the Environment
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Open Sublime Text, Command+N to create a new file and write LaTeX code in it.
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After editing, Command+S to save the file.
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Command+B to compile and run, you can now see the PDF preview in Skim.
Commands and Environments (case sensitive)
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Commands start with . For example
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Source code structure
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\documentclass{...} //use document class
\usepackage{...} //load package
\begin{document}
\end{document}
Packages and Document Classes
Document Class \documentclass[<options>]{<class-name>}
<class-name> includes:
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article Papers, reports, documentation
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report Long document class
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book Book document class
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proc Academic documents based on article document class
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slides Slide format document class
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minimal Minimal document class
<options> includes:
Example: Paper size A4, base font size 11pt, two-sided layout \documentclass[11pt,twoside,a4paper]{article}
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Base font size: 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, default is 10pt
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Paper size: a4paper, letterpaper, a5paper, b5pape
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Formula position: fleqn makes display formulas left-aligned (default is centered)
File Organization
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\include{<filename>}
\input{<filename>}Using LaTeX to Typeset Text
UTF-8 Encoding
\usepackage[utf-8]{inputenc}
Typesetting Chinese
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\documentclass{ctexart}
\begin{document}
Chinese LaTeX typesetting
\end{document}
Symbols in LaTeX
Spaces and paragraphs One or multiple spaces & one or multiple line breaks have the same effect
Comment %
Document Elements
Chapter and Section Titles
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\section{<title>} \subsection{<title>} \subsubsection{<title>} \paragraph{<title>} \subparagraph{<title>}
Insert URL Centered
\begin{center} \url{https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NIPS2018/} \end{center}
Common Errors
Latex Chinese utf-8 encoding
Use CJKutf8 to solve the problem
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\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{<font>}
...
\end{CJK}
\end{document}
font is for simplified Chinese fonts. CJK comes with utf-8 simplified fonts gbsn (Song) and gkai (Kai). The following code is a simple example (make sure to save the tex file in utf-8 format):
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%test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}
This is a CJKutf8 example, using gbsn font.
\end{CJK}
\end{document}
Basic Usage of MathJax
- Greek letters
Name: alpha, uppercase: $A$, Tex: A, lowercase: $\alpha$, Tex: \alpha
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Brackets
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Curly braces: \lbrace, \rbrace
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Angle brackets: \langle, \rangle
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Ceiling/floor: \lceil, \lfloor, \rceil, \floor
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Summation, integration, product
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Summation and multiplication: \sum, \cdot
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Integration: \int, \iint
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Product: \prod
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Special functions and symbols
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Trigonometric functions: \sin, \arctan, \lim
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Comparison operators: less than (\lt), greater than (\gt), less than or equal (\le), greater than or equal (ge), not equal (neq)
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Arrows: right arrow (\rightarrow), left arrow (\leftarrow), double right arrow (\Rightarrow), double left arrow (\Leftarrow)
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Top symbols: single character estimation (\hat), multi-character estimation (\widehat), mean (\overline), vector (\vec)
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Other operators: infinity (\infty), differential operator (\nabla), partial derivative (\partial)
Fonts
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Typewriter: \mathtt{A} renders as 𝙰, 𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉
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Blackboard Bold: \mathbb{A} renders as 𝔸, 𝔸𝔹ℂ𝔻𝔼𝔽𝔾ℍ𝕀𝕁𝕂𝕃𝕄ℕ𝕆ℙℚℝ𝕊𝕋𝕌𝕍𝕎𝕏𝕐ℤ
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Sans Serif: \mathsf{A} renders as 𝖠, 𝖠𝖡𝖢𝖣𝖤𝖥𝖦𝖧𝖨𝖩𝖪𝖫𝖬𝖭𝖮𝖯𝖰𝖱𝖲𝖳𝖴𝖵𝖶𝖷𝖸𝖹
Adding Numbers to Formulas
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Math formula\eqno number
Uncommon Errors
Cannot recognize rarely used symbols in formulas
Try importing package:
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\usepackage{amssymb} % prevent bugs for formula symbol
References
