<div dir="ltr">Comments in LaTeX start with a %, not a #. -tom</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 3:39 PM John C Frain <<a href="mailto:frainj@gmail.com">frainj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">0I presume that you are working on MS Windows. In my experience, many Windows experience problems such as those that you have encountered when they start to use LaTeX. The template that you have obtained can produce some very nice output. When you expand your zip (preserve directories if offered this option) you will find a file thesis.pdf. Print (or view) this with a pdf viewer to get a view of what the "template" can produce. <div><br></div><div>A first step in learning to use Latex would be to try to reproduce this pdf yourself. Someone in your College or in your IT Department has set up a very nice template to produce papers etc. using LaTeX. Your first call might be to see if you can contact one of those persons. Surely someone else (student or staff) in your Department has used the template and could provide you with some assistance in this task. I have started many economists by providing them with a template and showing them how to proceed. It should be possible to accomplish this is 15 - 30 minutes. I have a set of notes that I distribute on such occasions. These can be downloaded from <a href="https://ideas.repec.org/e/pfr62.html" target="_blank">https://ideas.repec.org/e/pfr62.html</a> . I recommend TexStudio (<a href="https://www.texstudio.org/" target="_blank">https://www.texstudio.org/</a>) as an editor for and interface to Latex. I think that Windows users would be more comfortable with Texstudio than with other such programs. If you accept the defaults when installing tex and texstudio then there is no need to configure it at this stage. You may ar a later stage need to configure your language (dictionary for spell check) but you can put this off till later. The default compiler is pdflatex which produces a pdf file directly from your tex file</div><div><br></div><div>The file thesis.tex is the main file that you will start editing. It is well worth examining. Any line that starts with an # is a comment and will be ignored by the pdflatex compiler. The first part of the program - that between the document class statement and the \begin{document) statement contains the late options that are passed to the pdflatex program. The part between the \begin{doument) and the \end{document} statement contains the text, equations, tables, graphs, etc in the document. </div><div><br></div><div>In the document, you will see instructions such as </div><div><br></div><div>\input{texfiles/Chapter1}</div><div><br></div><div>When thesis.tex is processed by pdflatex the contents of "Chapter1.tex" in the subdirectory "texfiles" of the working directory are read as if they were in thesis.tex at that point. It is good practice to include the chapters in separate files.</div><div><br></div><div>Now delete thesis.pdf, open texstudio, load thesis.tex, Under options set thesis.tex as root document. There is a double triangle on its side (Build and view F5). Click on this tool and you should recreate the pdf file. </div><div><br></div><div>(I have compiled thesis.tex on Linux on this Laptop. Linux is case sensitive and there are case mismatches between thesis.tex and the files in the template. this would incline me to think that the template was designed on Windows. This should make it easier for you to obtain help locally</div><div><br></div><div>Best of Luck. If you persevere you will find Latex very useful. </div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>John C Frain<br></div>3 Aranleigh Park<br><div><div>Rathfarnham<br>Dublin 14<br>Ireland<br><a href="http://www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html" target="_blank">www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html</a><br>mailto:<a href="mailto:frainj@tcd.ie" target="_blank">frainj@tcd.ie</a><br>mailto:<a href="mailto:frainj@gmail.com" target="_blank">frainj@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 at 18:38, political science <<a href="mailto:tapas.abhitech@gmail.com" target="_blank">tapas.abhitech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 at 23:18, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)">
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<br>Below "C:\texlive\2019", you should find "bin\win32", within which you should find "TeXworks.exe". Launch this (by double-clicking), and a TeX editor will load; you can then type your first TeX program into its main window :<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div>Many thanks, I was looking for this information only. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(36,39,41);text-transform:none;line-height:inherit;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-stretch:inherit;float:none;background-color:rgb(254,254,251)"> I have been given a template by department </span></div><div><span style="text-align:left;color:rgb(36,39,41);text-transform:none;line-height:inherit;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:100%;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline;white-space:normal;font-stretch:inherit;float:none;background-color:rgb(254,254,251)">how can I use the template which has been given to me as zip to be used in this kind of scenario.</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><br>
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