This tutorial existed when I was writing my Master's thesis in LaTex. Had I found this at the time, it would have saved me so much effort. Thanks for making such a detailed tutorial.
I really have enjoyed these videos and after watching them I went through to try them myself, which is when I ran into an error. I wrote the same thing but am getting the error: "Undefined control sequence" and it just ends in a "?" I have updated Latex but I believe I have version 2.8 and don't know how to install a later version if thats even a thing? Awesome video though!
Which editor are you using. I have a Mac with TeXstudio and it doesn't look or behave the same. I particularly have an issue with the compiling of Bibtex, I get it to work, but I suspect that is by chance ;-)
You're right. These tutorials were made a couple years ago. Since then I've worked on making things easier to read. This was recorded on a 27" display, and it looked fine to me there. However on my 13" laptop I can't see anything. Sorry about that.
The video is great...however, I typed as same as you but when I pressed the blue button for pdf view, the other window appeared with the warning "Error: File not found"...what should I do now?
Would i be better off writing a small proof for some challenge my hs teach gave me in docs or word or something, how long would it take (like in hours) to be competent enough to do like maybe a page, to page and a half proof (with math stuff). thx
An hour or two is typically enough, easier to get an example paper online with some proofs done already and see how the person did it. It is very logical to use
I created a file using texshop, I saved it then 5 different files are saved. But I want to retrieve my source code so that I could edit it. please tell me how to do it?
Does anyone know where I can get a more up to date explanation? I got about a quarter of the way through thinking oh wow this guy is good at explaining but then it turns out my version works differently...
so much work just to make a front page :') seriously, I STILL HAVE NOT found why i would use latex and not word...the only thing i can come up with, it is free......
LaTeX does have a steep learning curve. It's not the best for small documents - Word works great for that. Where the power lies is in large, complicated documents. If you're writing a thesis, for example, with many tables, images, references, etc, LaTeX makes keeping track of place holders easy. I've written reports in both Word and LaTeX, with my largest report being 85 pages long. LaTex was much easier to use for the large report. Word eats up a lot of resources whereas LaTeX doesn't. So really, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're doing a lab report for high school, Word is fine. If you're doing a lab report for your undergrad, Word is fine. If you're writing up a thesis for your phd, LaTeX might save you considerable time and frustration. LaTeX is also better for collaborative works. If you're doing a group project with subsections written by different people, using LaTeX you can import the subsections together easily and have standardized formatting across all the sections. With Word this would a tedious and laborious process.
Finally someone who could explain!! thanks. i do have another question because you said: '' LaTex was much easier to use for the large report. Word eats up a lot of resources whereas LaTeX doesn't.''. What do you mean by it eats up a lot of resources? latex need less MB's than word? thank you in advance. best wishes
If your report has many figures in it, you body the system down when it loads up all those images for your document. With LaTeX you don't actually insert (and display) the image - you just create a pointer to the image location. A large report in Word can take a long time to load up for editing and can take a while to scroll through as it generates the images for the screen. Latex doesn't do any of that. The file size of your latex report is consequently smaller too (though I figure documents and images are so small in the scheme of things anyways that this shouldn't matter). If you create a document with 100 images in it and try scrolling through and finding a position in the document it takes some time. If you create a document with 100 lines of code pointing to images, it takes no time to scroll through it and find a position.
again, thanks. and i really like the quick reply! it does sound better indeed the way you put it. i am now looking for tutorials how to use latex. to be fair i am not into the coding everything in order to create a report, but as i look through the tutorials, you can basicly copy paste a text in a kind of template....if that is the case, then i would be using LaTeX :) much easier thanks again for all the information. the lightning fast reply was wonderful
Hi I tried this... but the console reported the following. Not sure how to get past this. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./Untitled.tex LaTeX2e Babel and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded. (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) No file Untitled.aux. (./Untitled.aux) ) No pages of output. Transcript written on Untitled.log.
all easy, but just spend more time how to Build. you just say boom, but it's the first time on latex, might be easy for you, still struggling to have a pdf with your first example
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For a small lab report for school Word is fine. Word becomes a real pig when you're working on large documents, like a business report, or a thesis. When your documents start becoming 50+ pages, LaTex really starts to shine. Especially if you have many citations, figures, and tables. LaTeX is also good for collaborative work. If you have a group assignment, different sections of a report can be divided up between teammates, and you have one master LaTeX report file that stitches all the pieces together and standardizes formatting.
This tutorial existed when I was writing my Master's thesis in LaTex. Had I found this at the time, it would have saved me so much effort. Thanks for making such a detailed tutorial.
I didnt want to go deep into latex, I just wanted to make a small pdf and this helped a lot. Thanks a lot
THE MOST HELPFUL LaTex tutorial! You saved my life!!!!!!
This is THE BEST LaTex tutorial out there!
You saved me. Many troubles overcome. Thanks.
it is difficult for beginners, but for an introduction it is great, thank you !
Thank u so much, that really helped. This has become so easy....I understand it very well now :)
Pumla Vala I am glad you enjoyed them and learned!
super helpful, I liked who you went step by step. Thanks
Amazing tutorial!!!
+Camila Ramos I'm glad you enjoyed it! Happy learning :)
your demonstrations are awesome!!!
I really have enjoyed these videos and after watching them I went through to try them myself, which is when I ran into an error. I wrote the same thing but am getting the error: "Undefined control sequence" and it just ends in a "?" I have updated Latex but I believe I have version 2.8 and don't know how to install a later version if thats even a thing? Awesome video though!
Great tutorial, thank you very much !
really good video it REALLY HELPED!!!!! Thanks
Thank you so much you help me a lot to write my thesis
Can you make a videos how to writr an article foma IEEE ''please''
Wonderful tutorial videos! Thanks a lot from 2022!!
Great tutorial, thanks a million
I followed this to a tea but the PDF wouldn´t open up and it kept targeting a blank line as an error.
you are amazing!
Great video! Thanks!
thank you so so much
Hi, Why did you chose the document class article instead of report?
I am getting an error just by writing exactly the same thing. It says "No pages of output"
same
Great video, thanks a lot
thank you so much for the tutorial! It helps a lot :)
Which editor are you using. I have a Mac with TeXstudio and it doesn't look or behave the same. I particularly have an issue with the compiling of Bibtex, I get it to work, but I suspect that is by chance ;-)
Thank you.
Hey Alexander Baran-Harper, your tutorials are really nice, but please increase the font size of the code. Thanks!
You're right. These tutorials were made a couple years ago. Since then I've worked on making things easier to read. This was recorded on a 27" display, and it looked fine to me there. However on my 13" laptop I can't see anything. Sorry about that.
The video is great...however, I typed as same as you but when I pressed the blue button for pdf view, the other window appeared with the warning "Error: File not found"...what should I do now?
like it so much , thanks man
Thank yoooou!!
TBH not sure why everyone is ragging on the controller - they are made to be durable. My NES controller from 1985 works.
word document is the best
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
+Xintong YU You're welcome. Enjoy!
it there a way to make the entire document horizontal, or landscape orientation?
When I do cmdT it doesn't open the pdf file and I can't find it anywhere, can You solve it?
same!
same！
same
Same, worked before but not now for some reason
Great! Thank you! 👏👍
Would a Table of Contents not contain a page number also? Thanks
Great. Thank You!
What font are you using?
hello i m using that in my laptop but i want to use in other laptop i cant see the result its saving the pdf
Where do I put my sty and cls files so that TexShop will find them, other than in the folder where I am working?
How do you automatically have the page number on the center bottom?Mine automatically puts it at the top right corner....grrr >.
Hi, I tried this, troubleshooter shows up, but pdf window doesnt, is there any specific button that I can push and get this pdf window?
Thank you
Would i be better off writing a small proof for some challenge my hs teach gave me in docs or word or something, how long would it take (like in hours) to be competent enough to do like maybe a page, to page and a half proof (with math stuff). thx
An hour or two is typically enough, easier to get an example paper online with some proofs done already and see how the person did it. It is very logical to use
I created a file using texshop, I saved it then 5 different files are saved. But I want to retrieve my source code so that I could edit it. please tell me how to do it?
works only on mac
I'm not getting my pdf output. Neither it is being saved in any folder? help me with this
Hello, when I do cmd T the console appears but not the pdf file. What should I do?
Can you change the linewidth?
Thank U 💜
What is the application you write latex in?
Hello, When i open LatexiT an error message pops out "pdflatex not found or doesnot work as expected" how to fix it ? I am using Yosemite 10.10.3.
the package of numbering the pages doesn't work only worked in the first page
I got a question about the vertical spaces... when I input [2.4cm] for example, it just prints it out.. what's with that?
You are probably missing a \\ in the previous line.
Does anyone know where I can get a more up to date explanation? I got about a quarter of the way through thinking oh wow this guy is good at explaining but then it turns out my version works differently...
It helps if people know which version you're using. In the videos I am using 3.18
Thank you! I'm using 2.7.5
Thanks
What is the software used ?
where a can get the software for this?
so much work just to make a front page :') seriously, I STILL HAVE NOT found why i would use latex and not word...the only thing i can come up with, it is free......
thanks for the video anyways man. take my ''thumbs up'
LaTeX does have a steep learning curve. It's not the best for small documents - Word works great for that. Where the power lies is in large, complicated documents. If you're writing a thesis, for example, with many tables, images, references, etc, LaTeX makes keeping track of place holders easy. I've written reports in both Word and LaTeX, with my largest report being 85 pages long. LaTex was much easier to use for the large report. Word eats up a lot of resources whereas LaTeX doesn't.
So really, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're doing a lab report for high school, Word is fine. If you're doing a lab report for your undergrad, Word is fine. If you're writing up a thesis for your phd, LaTeX might save you considerable time and frustration.
LaTeX is also better for collaborative works. If you're doing a group project with subsections written by different people, using LaTeX you can import the subsections together easily and have standardized formatting across all the sections. With Word this would a tedious and laborious process.
Finally someone who could explain!! thanks.
i do have another question because you said: '' LaTex was much easier to use for the large report. Word eats up a lot of resources whereas LaTeX doesn't.''.
What do you mean by it eats up a lot of resources?
latex need less MB's than word?
thank you in advance.
best wishes
If your report has many figures in it, you body the system down when it loads up all those images for your document. With LaTeX you don't actually insert (and display) the image - you just create a pointer to the image location. A large report in Word can take a long time to load up for editing and can take a while to scroll through as it generates the images for the screen. Latex doesn't do any of that. The file size of your latex report is consequently smaller too (though I figure documents and images are so small in the scheme of things anyways that this shouldn't matter).
If you create a document with 100 images in it and try scrolling through and finding a position in the document it takes some time. If you create a document with 100 lines of code pointing to images, it takes no time to scroll through it and find a position.
again, thanks. and i really like the quick reply!
it does sound better indeed the way you put it.
i am now looking for tutorials how to use latex. to be fair i am not into the coding everything in order to create a report, but as i look through the tutorials, you can basicly copy paste a text in a kind of template....if that is the case, then i would be using LaTeX :) much easier
thanks again for all the information. the lightning fast reply was wonderful
Where can I download this software for my mac?
Nevermind, I've found it. Haha. :)
Hi I tried this... but the console reported the following. Not sure how to get past this.
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./Untitled.tex
LaTeX2e
Babel and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2014/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file Untitled.aux.
(./Untitled.aux) )
No pages of output.
Transcript written on Untitled.log.
Rahul Rajan Are you able to build any simple documents? What lines of code in particular are giving you an issue?
how to download for win 7.............plz reply
only for mac users?
Nope, LaTeX is for Windows, Mac and I think there is even a Linux build. But you can also just go online and write LaTeX. (I really like overleaf.com)
How to build???
all easy, but just spend more time how to Build. you just say boom, but it's the first time on latex, might be easy for you, still struggling to have a pdf with your first example
Unclog my mind pore x pore root spirit in weathery just when close falls away check note of asking record and where your hearts at moving from mind or leave(a near study from a further study of affair or romance and 2 romey.
It makes me angry that some people think this program is necessary when Word exists...
Try doing what he did in this video in word and let me know how that goes.
Haha try doing scientific papers using word. Its such a drag. LaTeX ftw.
I dont understand why would someone add so much work and effort into just typing up an article. Why not us MS word ? Or Word doc?
is it just me or this guy sounds a lot like Joji (Flithy Frank)????????
Inches is not a Standard Unit, it is just dumb.
True mate
you made zoom out when writing commands, so sad
I see steam on Dock hahahhah
what is the fkin point of latex,,,why would i go truuu al the trouble making something i can make in word for a minute
For a small lab report for school Word is fine. Word becomes a real pig when you're working on large documents, like a business report, or a thesis. When your documents start becoming 50+ pages, LaTex really starts to shine. Especially if you have many citations, figures, and tables.
LaTeX is also good for collaborative work. If you have a group assignment, different sections of a report can be divided up between teammates, and you have one master LaTeX report file that stitches all the pieces together and standardizes formatting.
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Isn't it pronounced Lay-tech?
la-tik