2. Improving Postgraduate Learning LaTeX Basics – Professional Document Preparation Michael FUNG (pffung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk)pffung@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

3. LaTeX  A typesetting system for professional writing and publication  Commercial product –PCTeX32 (www.pctex.com)www.pctex.com  FREE open source software –MiKT E X (www.miktex.org)www.miktex.org –Red Hat Linux (including LaTeX package) (www.redhat.com)www.redhat.com

4. Readings  《 Word 排版藝術》讀後感 — 兼談與 LaTeX 的比較陳碩 –http://blog.csdn.net/solstice/archive/2004/11/19/1 87233.aspx [ 簡体中文 ]http://blog.csdn.net/solstice/archive/2004/11/19/1 87233.aspx  Typesetting with LaTeX & Word 个人排版经验与技巧 –http://blog.csdn.net/Solstice/category/70.aspx [Blog]http://blog.csdn.net/Solstice/category/70.aspx

5. Getting Started…  Boot up a computer  Choose English version Windows  Login with your ITSC PC-LAN username and password  Wait…

6. Get Course Material  Ref CUHK GS Platform: https://www.gradsch.cuhk.edu.hk/pgstudent/main.htm https://www.gradsch.cuhk.edu.hk/pgstudent/main.htm  http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~pffung/ipl/latex http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~pffung/ipl/latex  Download and save this file to D:\ IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab.zip  Extract the content of the zip file to D:\  Then, … DELETE the zip file in D:\

7. Start PCTeX32  Start  All Programs  Authoring Tools  PCTeX32  Do this once to register the program

8. Check Your Files  Open the folder “My Computer”… D:\IPL_LaTeX_Basics_lab\  Sample document content, the text, figures, etc. have been prepared beforehand  We are now going to typeset them

9. Check the Startup File  Double click on the file latex_basics_start.tex  PCTeX32 will be called up again with the file opened  This is our startup file  Let’s start putting in ingredients to make our sandwich