Latex Tutorial 1 of 11: Starting a Report and Title Page

[@navsquid32]

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.

[@malhaarthakore6843]

I didnt want to go deep into latex, I just wanted to make a small pdf and this helped a lot. Thanks a lot

[@Xingqiwu387]

This is THE BEST LaTex tutorial out there!

[@zijunliu7765]

THE MOST HELPFUL LaTex tutorial! You saved my life!!!!!!

[@pumlavala3038]

Thank u so much, that really helped. This has become so easy....I understand it very well now :)

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

Pumla Vala I am glad you enjoyed them and learned!

[@Baimarima]

You saved me. Many troubles overcome. Thanks.

[@sultanmahamdnur6807]

it is difficult for beginners, but for an introduction it is great, thank you !

[@camicasia]

Amazing tutorial!!!

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

+Camila Ramos I'm glad you enjoyed it! Happy learning :)

[@luwang6470]

your demonstrations are awesome!!!

[@shareghiparto]

super helpful, I liked who you went step by step. Thanks

[@joet629able]

really good video it REALLY HELPED!!!!! Thanks

[@juljankrause8631]

Great tutorial, thank you very much !

[@xuruolan8386]

thank you so much for the tutorial! It helps a lot :)

[@MrUidX]

Great tutorial, thanks a million

[@jinyog5276]

Wonderful tutorial videos! Thanks a lot from 2022!!

[@angelustt]

I am getting an error just by writing exactly the same thing. It says "No pages of output"

[@fritzahern1380]

same

[@hannahknudsen2977]

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!

[@TheBreadBoard]

you are amazing!

[@GordonjSmith1]

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 ;-)

[@edwardyue5884]

like it so much , thanks man

[@yxu7074]

Great video! Thanks!

[@willcm896]

Great video, thanks a lot

[@lucar1469]

When I do cmdT it doesn't open the pdf file and I can't find it anywhere, can You solve it?

[@gend6]

same!

[@lexinlee5687]

same！

[@bennetjanssen4037]

same

[@violentguitarguy]

Same, worked before but not now for some reason

[@violentguitarguy]

I followed this to a tea but the PDF wouldn´t open up and it kept targeting a blank line as an error.

[@Sergyssimo]

Great! Thank you! 👏👍

[@hoanghoanguyenduong8760]

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?

[@Goku17yen]

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

[@TheStickofWar]

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

[@elenawd5531]

Hi, Why did you chose the document class article instead of report?

[@tawilk]

it there a way to make the entire document horizontal, or landscape orientation?

[@Rovshanik27]

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?

[@tulliusagrippa5752]

Where do I put my sty and cls files so that TexShop will find them, other than in the folder where I am working?

[@boukharimohammed8488]

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''

[@CerebralAssassin]

How do you automatically have the page number on the center bottom?Mine automatically puts it at the top right corner....grrr >.

[@g.bausch4153]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

+Xintong YU You're welcome. Enjoy!

[@qamanager8472]

Would a Table of Contents not contain a page number also? Thanks

[@nymkanymak4780]

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

[@3h13h1]

Hey Alexander Baran-Harper, your tutorials are really nice, but please increase the font size of the code. Thanks!

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

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.

[@killimnishanth7071]

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.

[@Chill018]

I got a question about the vertical spaces... when I input [2.4cm] for example, it just prints it out.. what's with that?

[@pang1428]

You are probably missing a \\ in the previous line.

[@jorgeperezgonzalez1198]

Hello, when I do cmd T the console appears but not the pdf file. What should I do?

[@diptishramteke9427]

I'm not getting my pdf output. Neither it is being saved in any folder? help me with this

[@prashantsharma-mc6hh]

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?

[@otiagomarques]

What font are you using?

[@ibrahimKaraagac]

Great. Thank You!

[@TopAhmed1]

word document is the best

[@shriyapandita4295]

What is the application you write latex in?

[@the_kombinator]

TBH not sure why everyone is ragging on the controller - they are made to be durable. My NES controller from 1985 works.

[@jeeepmatje5916]

Can you change the linewidth?

[@shimaasadk4881]

the package of numbering the pages doesn't work only worked in the first page

[@indupriyasharma88]

thank you so so much

[@ondubuloves]

Where can I download this software for my mac?

[@ondubuloves]

Nevermind, I've found it. Haha. :)

[@rahulrajan4535]

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.

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

Rahul Rajan Are you able to build any simple documents? What lines of code in particular are giving you an issue?

[@DavidDragoon]

where a can get the software for this?

[@IcyShard1001]

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...

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

It helps if people know which version you're using. In the videos I am using 3.18

[@IcyShard1001]

Thank you! I'm using 2.7.5

[@fidelcertuche8002]

Thank you.

[@anupampammi4960]

What is the software used ?

[@wjdanjojo5060]

Thank U 💜

[@thinBillyBoy]

Thank yoooou!!

[@badboy8526]

Thank you

[@suhas7385]

works only on mac

[@kashifrehman2060]

how to download for win 7.............plz reply

[@korean4130]

only for mac users?

[@stephanstanisic2007]

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)

[@4abdoulaye]

How to build???

[@zennologyofeverything7265]

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......

[@zennologyofeverything7265]

thanks for the video anyways man. take my ''thumbs up'

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

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.

[@zennologyofeverything7265]

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

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

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.

[@zennologyofeverything7265]

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

[@kshitijvengurlekar1192]

Thanks

[@liberator48]

It makes me angry that some people think this program is necessary when Word exists...

[@mike4617]

Try doing what he did in this video in word and let me know how that goes.

[@Katonje]

Haha try doing scientific papers using word. Its such a drag. LaTeX ftw.

[@MD2525-1]

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?

[@Nico2000]

Inches is not a Standard Unit, it is just dumb.

[@HighwayShooter101]

True mate

[@profesorconservador]

you made zoom out when writing commands, so sad

[@davidgatjens4386]

is it just me or this guy sounds a lot like Joji (Flithy Frank)????????

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[@272scream]

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

[@Changwen666]

I see steam on Dock hahahhah

[@tubedud8190]

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

[@alexanderbaran-harper4748]

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.

[@kimlornhong8070]

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[@sumeetjadhav4083]

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[@sammy-the-crab4107]

Isn't it pronounced Lay-tech?

[@thewatcher364]

la-tik