Use L A TEX and Cygwin on Windows Platform to Write Thesis

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1 Use L A TEX and Cygwin on Windows Platform to Write Thesis Yin Zhou May 17, 2003 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Install Cygwin 1 3 Cygwin and L A TEX Basics 2 4 Write Thesis Using L A TEX 3 5 L A TEX Resources 4 1 Introduction This document describes step-by-step instructions to set up software for using L A TEX on Windows NT/2000/XP machines to write thesis. Some basics related to L A TEX and Cygwin are also introduced. 2 Install Cygwin Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows family of operating systems. 1. Go to in a web browser. Click on Install or update now!. Save the downloaded program setup.exe, for example to c:\downloads\cygwin. Then launch the program. 2. Either select Install from Internet, or select Download from Internet followed by Install from Local Directory. In the latter case, select a local package directory to store the downloaded packages, for example c:/downloads/cygwin/localpackages. 3. Select a relatively near and fast site such as ftp.nas.nasa.gov for downloading. Use the the default selected packages for now. Start downloading (and installation if Install from Internet is selected earlier). 1

2 4. Run setup.exe again and follow the same steps mentioned above until the selecting packages screen shows up. Click on the view button to change to the category view. Expand the Text node and select the following packages by clicking on the word skip for the latest available versions. (Note that there may be a delay of response before the status changes. Make sure only the binary box instead of the source box is checked.) tetex: tetex-base: tetex-bin: tetex-extra: tetex-tiny: tetex-x11: tetex-bin: texmf: texmf-base: texmf-doc: texmf-extra: texmf-tiny: 5. Click on the view button to toggle to the full mode. Select the following additional packages which are skipped by default make: 3.6.1p1-1 openssh: 0.9.7b-1 openssl: 0.9.6j-1 openssl096: 6. Continue with the setup program if Install from Internet were selected. If Download from Internet were selected, run again setup.exe, select Install from Local Directory and ensure that the additional packages downloaded earlier are selected. For other settings, use the defaults. Wait till the installation is completed. 3 Cygwin and L A TEX Basics Here are some basics about Cygwin to get started and to test the installation. Should a Cygwin shortcut not be created on the desktop or in the Start menu, add it manually with the target C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -i. A shortcut to the X server can be created with the target c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\startxwin.bat. A user home directory is located in c:\cygwin\home\%username%, i.e. ~, c:/cygwin/home/$username, or /cygdrive/c/home/$username. To connect to servers in the department at the university, use ssh command for a secured shell session and sftp for a secured ftp session, for example, 2

3 ssh -X -l username skorpio.usask.ca sftp Try the following commands to typeset this document. latex guide_cygwin_latex.tex dvips -Ppdf -o steps.ps steps.dvi ps2pdf steps.ps If you are running an X server, try the following to view the dvi file. xdvi guide_cygwin_latex.dvi To view PostScript files, native Windows applications such as Ghostscript and GSview need to be installed. Go to Follow the downloading and installation instructions. To view PDF files, use Adobe Acrobat for Windows. 4 Write Thesis Using L A TEX See the following skeleton files to get a thesis started. Makefile Utilize the MAKE utility to conveniently organize various tasks including, make make fast make again make pdf make clean See the commands and comments in the Makefile. thesis.tex The main thesis file u-of-s-thesis-style.tex The style file. Check with the department for new updates. The style can be switched between draft, proposal, M.Sc. or PhD thesis by turning on/off some comments. Chapter and section files Use \input command to enclose the files from thesis.tex or other files recursively in an hierarchy. mybib.bib The bibliography file. It is compiled by bibtex and then consulted by L A TEX. See Makefile. 3

4 Figures Generate figures in EPS format. Despite how the figures are created, export them to EPS or PS files if the authoring software supports it. Otherwise, print the figures to file using a PostScript printer driver. A PostScript printer driver can be found on Adobe web site for Windows. Then use ps2eps (search on google.com) or GSview to convert PS to EPS format. Lastly, use \includegraphics command to plug the figures into figure environments in L A TEX files. Remember that captions should be placed at the bottom of figures per the university requirement. The following is an example. \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=5.2in,height=3.2in]{fle.eps} \caption{the caption goes here.} \label{fig:a-label} \end{center} \end{figure} Tables Use table, tabular, supertabular environments to construct tables. Note that captions should be placed at the top of tables per the university requirement. The following is an example. \begin{table}[hbt] \caption{the caption goes here} \label{tab:a-label} \tablefirsthead{ \multicolumn{1}{c }{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{x} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{y} \\ \hline} \tablelasttail{\hline} \begin{center} \begin{supertabular}{c c c} prog A & 40 & 87 \\ prog B & 10 & 27 \\ prog C & 10 & 27 \\ prog D & 51 & 80 \\ \end{supertabular} \end{center} \end{table} 5 L A TEX Resources Most TeX and LaTex related resources are archived at Manuals can be found locally in /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex, including,./general/guide.dvi./general/latex2e.dvi./general/lshort.dvi./general/symbols.dvi 4

5 Use xdvi to read them. Or convert them to PDF format as mentioned earlier and read in Acrobat. To find the tex source code for these files, go to ftp://ftp.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/. 5