Latex Template for Project report

Here is the LaTeX-template for our project report. Rather than writing everything, like title-page, contents, bibliography etc, in a single source file, we have divided  it into seperate files, which makes it easier to modify, debug & to read.

What do we have here?
There are 4 .tex files
base.tex- is a parent file & other files are included in it.
title.tex- title page. You need to edit names, usn etc.
contents.tex- you can start writing report contents in this starting with abstract till conclusion.
bibl.tex- add references & links here (bibiliography).
images- directory which contains images of SJCE and VTU logos

Note: You can create still more .tex sources for your report,say blk-dia.tex, hw-spec.tex… But you should place it in your base.tex directory & include that .tex file in base.tex & generate.

What should i do?

1. Download the template from: Download template
2. Extract the contents of .zip file to a folder
3. Edit the 4 .tex files with your project contents.
4. You can place all the images and code files in respective folders and link them to your report with this path.
5. After all editing is done, Open base.tex in gedit.
6. Under Tools, click on Latex->pdf…base.pdf is created which is your final report file.

Contact shasikiran and Ashish for any queries

Steps to install Latex

How to install Latex?

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.

Latex online tutorial part 2 - Commands

LATEX commands are all case sensitive . They may be one of the two formats.

• They start with a backslash \ and then have name consisting of lettters only. Commands names can be terminated by a space, a number or any other 'non-letter'.
• They contain a backslash and exactly one Non-letter.

It ignores whitespace after commands. If you want to get a spaceafter commands ,put {} and a blank after command name. the {} stops LATEX from deleting space after command names. 

EX:

Input:

I read that Knuth divides the

people working with \TeX{} into

\TeX{}nicians and \TeX perts.\\

Today is \today.

output:

I read that Knuth divides the people

working with TEX into TEXnicians and

TEXperts.

Today is June 24, 2010.

Notice that \today is a command that produces the present date and year.

To create a Italic effect in LATEX :

We use \textsl{} command .

EX:   I/P:  you can \textsl{play} cricket
         o/p: you can play cricket.

To go to new line use the \newline command.

Download the big list of LATEX command OR LINK 2 

Latex online tutorials- part1

Latex is a free typesetting system. It can be used to produce the  high quality presentation and documents including class handouts,reports, letters ,Journal articles and Books.

why should we use Latex ?

• Mathematical formulas can be produced easily.
• Equations, figures and tables can be labelled ,so that cross reference can be easy.
• It is free to use, Being used by many international universities and research personals.
• The tex files have the standard ASCII format, hence they can be produced using  text editors and e-mailed to friends and colleagues.
• The dvi files produced by system can be easily sent to a variety of output devices like computers and printers.