Last Edited: Apr 8, 2022
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Download the following files:
\documentclass[a4j]{jarticle}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
Hello World.
\end{document}
Oops, if you happen to use Japanese keyboard, you can input a \ by Option+¥.
Save it with a file name such as "sample.tex", then click "typeset" button. TeXShop executes LaTeX and generates "sample.dvi" file. If no error happens, it continues to create a PDF file "sample.pdf" and displays the generated PDF file. If you are able to input Japanese characters, add some Japanese words before the line of \end{document}. Save the file and click the "Typeset" button again to see what happens.
Note that multiple spaces in LaTeX are usually intepreted as a single space, and paragraphs are separated by blank lines. A comment starts with % and continues to the end of line. This is very convenient to leave your memo on the text which is not published in the document. However, you should be careful when you write something like
in the analysis, 45% of the users felt ...
All characters after % are ignored. In this case,
you should write as
in the analysis, 45\% of the users felt ...
When you emphasize a word by a doublequote, you specify two backquotes
as well as two apostrophies:
In order to ``emphasize'' a word
Some other special characters may have special meaning, and you prepend
a \ to each of such characters in the text.
Please refer the LaTeX documentation.
Before start using TeXShop, creating a new directory is highly recommended as TeX system generates several control/log files there. You can also split the text intro several files, and main tex file can include the definitions (such as \documentclass and \begin{document}) as well as inclusion directives of other files (such as \input{intro.tex}). Note: all of TeX files should have suffix of ".tex".
When you create a file to be included by the main file, you should specify the main file by Macro->Root for each new file. The TeXShop always starts with the main file when you click "Typeset" button (you don't have to search main file window).
When you start writing your thesis, it is recommended to use a TeX Macro Files maintained by Masato Yamanouchi, Daisuke Uriu, and others. Please check the following URL:
KMD Thesis Template maintained by Dr. Charith Fernando
If you are going to write a thesis in Science and Engineering style, I'd suggest to comment out the following lines at the end of each TeX file:
\section*{注}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{注}
\begin{footnotesize}
\theendnotes
\end{footnotesize}
If you are going to write in Japanese Science and Engineering style thesis, you may want to replace
\bibliographystyle{acm-sigchi}at the end part of document.tex with the followings:
%\bibliographystyle{acm-sigchi}and move
\bibliographystyle{junsrt}
%to after a line
% 謝辞
%
\acknowledgements
本研究の指導教員であり、
...
%\input{conclusion.tex}
Make sure you periodically (daily) backup all of your files to an USB memory - don't override the old files as long as the remaining capacity allows. According to Murphy's Law, closer the deadline, higher the disk crash possibility. It is also vital to keep the USB memories to a secure place if they contain confidential information. If you have a remote server accessible via ssh, it is suggested to use remote version management tools such as cvs, svn, or git.
In some cases, you may want to add a citation to the caption such as
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=10cm]{figs/sample-figure.eps}
\end{center}
\label{fig:sample-figure}
\caption{Sample Figure~\cite{sample-figure}}
\end{figure}
This is good, however, the citation marks such as [12] appear on the
"List of Figures" page, which should be avoided. In this case, you can
specify an alternate caption by using [ ] such as
\caption[Sample Figure]{Sample Figure~\cite{sample-figure}}
This is convenient as well when the caption is too long; you can specify
an abbrevation version in [ ] to make the list of figure page more beautiful.
% !TEX root = thesis.tex
at the top of the file. Now you can click "Typeset" to run LaTeX of the
file under editing without seeking the top level file window.
it is illustrated in Figure ??.
In this case, you may notify something like followings in the console window:
LaTeX warning: Reference `sample-figure' on page 8 undefined on input line 48.
...
LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
LaTeX Warning: Label(s) may have changed. Rerun to get cross-references right.
In the second run, LaTeX refers the ".aux" file generated in the previous
run to resolve the references to generate correct output such as
it is illustrated in Figure 2.11.
The full course execution of LaTeX would be:
"Typeset LaTeX", "Typeset BibTeX", "Typeset LaTeX", then "Typeset LaTeX".You should execute this process before submission of your document.
\bibliography{project.bib,rfc.bib,my.bib}
When you are to share a project bib file with your colleagues, entry name convention is important to avoid confusion and conflict.
When you need a bibliography file for RFC (Request for Comments), there are many automatically generated ones available. One of them is rfc.bib.gz maintained by Dr. -Ing. Roland Bless from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.