Fundamentals of (La)TeX
All from GUI/menus (or command-line/Makefile):
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1. | Start Kile (menu or commandline) to get the opening graphical shell. | |
2. | Open a document: File, New. | |
3. | Edit the template provided. | |
4. | Build, Quick Build, or Build, Compile, PDFLaTeX to check syntax and preview. | |
5. | Print in the obvious way: File, Print. |
When you create a (La)TeX source file you will make mistakes:
LaTeX error. See LaTeX manual for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ! Environment itemie undefined. \@latexerr ...for immediate help.}\errmessage {#1} \endgroup l.140 \begin{itemie} ? |
Its possible that you may see something like. . .
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+264/600 --dpi 864 cmti10 mktexpk: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+264/600; nonstopmode; input cmti10 This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmti10.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/cmbase.mf) (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/textit.mf (/usr/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/cm/itall.mf [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] [118] [119] [120] [121] [122])
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The aims of this hands-on session are for you to: