Linda Cecilie Kjeldsen, 2004
[ Format and style ] [ TeX ]
| "A man [or woman] of true science...uses but few hard words, and
those only when none other will answer his [or her] purpose; whereas the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he proves he understands hard things." -- Herman Melville |
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* General guidelines:
The Guide to preparing manuscripts for the journals published by the Taylor & Francis group.
TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald E. Knuth, who says that it is "intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics".
MiKTeX is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system. MiKTeX offers a complete set of utilities, macro packages and fonts, e.g., LaTeX, pdfTeX, ConTeXt, just to name a few.
* Links to get started:
* Editors:
There are no problems with using any plain text editor
to edit .tex-files. However, it is more convenient to use an editor with special
features to make using LaTeX easier:
* An example file to begin with:
* Other...
* Create Bibliography with BibTeX (a part of MikTeX):
* Example:To add graphics to a LaTeX document, have the graphics in EPS-format (Encapsulated PostScript). Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator supports this format. For pdflatex, the graphics can be in jpg, png or pdf format, not eps. This means that if the document is to be transformed both by standard latex and pdflatex, the graphics must be kept in two formats; eps and one of the others.
In the heading, include the package "graphicx" in the "\usepackage"-command.
To include graphics, put "\includegraphics{myGraphics}" where the graphics is
supposed to be placed. No filetype is included, and that is because the standard
latex automatically looks for .eps-files and pdflatex looks for .jpg, .png or
.pdf.
By passing an argument to the "\includegraphics"-command, the size of
the graphics can be specified, i.e. "\includegraphics[width=3in]{myGraphics}"
To add caption and label (so that the figure can be referenced) do like
this:
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=3in]{myGraphics}
\caption{This
is a very nice
picture.}
\label{fig:graphics}
\end{figure}
To
center the figure just add a \centerline around the \includegraphics
statement:
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=3in]{myGraphics}}
Graphics and tables are called "floats" by professional printers because they float in text. Floating in the text means that they are not part of the normal text, but rather float in the area where they are placed and can move up or down in the text based on spacing needs. How to avoid this I haven't figured out yet...
Graphics
in the tutorial
Overview of graphics in
LaTeX
Document
Formatting
* Example: