Outline Basic English Introduction Grammar Vocabulary Translation Information

Outline Basic English Ø Introduction, Grammar, Vocabulary, Translation Information Inquiry Ø Database Reading Technical Materials Ø Communications, Signal processing, Networks, etc. Technical Writing Ø How to write a technical paper Latex Ø Software Communications Engineering 1

Latex Download http: //www. ctex. org/Home. Page Template http: //www. ieee. org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates. html http: //mirrors. cqu. edu. cn/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtra n_HOWTO. pdf Forum https: //ctan. org/ http: //bbs. ctex. org/forum. php Communications Engineering 2

Latex Basic information Ø Ø Ø Text Special characters Command Comment Run Typesetting Ø Ø Ø Paragraph Special characters Sections Cross referral Other useful tips Formula New environment Communications Engineering 3

Basic information Text Ø Just type the words as you do in the Word. Ø Consecutive blanks are displayed as one blank. Special characters Ø Add ‘’ to show special characters in the text, i. e. , Commands Ø Begins with ‘’ and specific words. Ø E. g. , today returns the specific date, textbf gives boldface characters, alpha gives Comments Ø The sentences following % are comments. Communications Engineering 4

Basic information Run Latex Ø Run Latex over the xxx. tex file. Ø Make corrections if errors. Warnings are ok, but make sure that there is no fatal mistakes. Ø With dvi file available, run dvi 2 pdf over the xxx. tex file. Document types Ø Ø Ø Article, report, slides Onecolumn, twocolumn 10 pt, 12 pt Generally use the template for technical papers. For large files, we may write different tex files for different parts, and use ‘input’ to merge the tex files together. Communications Engineering 5

Typesetting Paragraph Ø Separate the paragraphs manually with two Enter, or ‘\’, or newline Ø newpage. Special characters Ø ‘’ or `` ’’, ldots, ~, ^o, -Ø Commands included in Equation Section Ø section, subsubsection Cross referral Ø label{xx}, ref{xx} Ø eq: xx, sec: xx, fig: xx, tab: xx Other useful tips Ø footnote, underline, emph Ø Unit: cm, mm, in, pt Ø Font size: tiny, scriptsize, footnotesize, small, normalsize, large, LARGE, huge, Huge Communications Engineering 6

Typesetting Other useful tips Communications Engineering 7

Typesetting Other useful tips Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø begin{center} … end{center} flushlest, flushright begin{itemize} item. . end{itemize} begin{enumerate}item. . end{enumerate} begin{description} item. . end{description} begin{tabular} …end{tabular}, hline, caption pagestyle{. . }, plain, headings, empty begin{spacing}{1. 8} hspace, vspace Communications Engineering 8

Formula Commands Ø Ø Ø begin{equation}end{equation} begin{align}end{align} begin{array}{ll}. . &. . \. . &. . end{array} Take advantage of the commands included in Equation for the special symbols Eg. , 1) a^2, a_2, sqrt, le, ge, in, subset; 2) alpha, beta, infty; 3) overline, underline, overbrace, underbrace, rightarrow; 4) dot, cdot, times, frac, sum, integral; 5) cos, sin, arg, max, min, left, right; 6) big, Big, bigg, Bigg, Ø Use quad, , hspace to express blank. Ø No blank line is allowed. Communications Engineering 9

New Environment newcommands Ø Ø newcommand{xx}{xxxxxx} Eg. , newcommand{E}{mathbb{E}}, ; newtheorem{xx}{xxxxxx} Eg. , newtheorem{Exm}{Example}, begin{Exm}end{Exm} Communications Engineering 10