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Improving Postgraduate Learning

• LaTeX Advanced Thesis Preparation
• Michael FUNG
• (pffung_at_cse.cuhk.edu.hk)

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LaTeX

• A typesetting system for professional writing and
  publication
• Commercial product
• PCTeX32 (www.pctex.com)
• FREE open source software
• MiKTEX (www.miktex.org)
• Red Hat Linux (including LaTeX package)
  (www.redhat.com)

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Getting Started

• Boot up a computer
• Choose English version Windows
• Login with your ITSC PC-LAN username and
  password
• Wait

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Get Course Material

• Ref CUHK GS Platform https//www.gradsch.cuhk.edu
  .hk/pgstudent/main.htm
• http//www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/pffung/ipl/latex
• Download and save this file to D\
• IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab.zip
• Extract the content of the zip file to D\
• Then, DELETE the zip file in D\

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Start PCTeX32

• Start?All Programs?Authoring Tools?PCTeX32
• Do this once to register the program

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Check Your Files

• Open the folder My Computer
• D\IPL_LaTeX_Advanced_lab\thesis_start
• Your thesis chapters shall be put into separate
  sub-folders, like mine
• The thesis text, figures, tables, etc. have been
  prepared beforehand
• We are now going to bind them together into a
  thesis

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Look At the Master File

• Double click on the file thesis.tex
• PCTeX32 will be called up again with the file
  opened
• This is our master file
• Lets start putting in the ingredients to make
  our sandwich

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The Meat

• The Master file glues other parts together
• Check the Project window for other files
• Cover Page
• Thesis Chapters
• \chapter
• Preamble
• Page Numbering and Style
• Appendix

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Bibliography

• Glance through final.bib
• Item index
• Bibtex
• Choose Master file before typesetting the
  bibliography
• Citation
• \citearticle2001

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Sugar

• Definition \mydef
• Chapter \note
• \footnote
• \chapterend

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Salt

• Beware of undefined references
• Reorganize the paragraphs and the figures/tables
  to deal with the text underflow and overflow
  problem

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Printing and Publishing

• You can print your thesis with PCTeX32
• There are tools for converting your thesis into
  different formats
• PostScript (PS) and
• Portable Document Format (PDF)
• You are ready to publish your work!