Spoken Tutorial, IIT Bombay https://spoken-tutorial.org LaTeX Report Writing - Assignments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Assignment on a4 paper and letter paper Repeat the tutorial with a4 size paper. In the US, letter paper is used instead of a4 paper. Use letterpaper (one word) in the place of a5paper and repeat. Do the results of any of the commands change because of these substitutions? 2) Assignment on Font size Find out how many different font sizes are available in LaTeX Use web search for this Try out a few font sizes 3) Assignment on report.toc Delete the file report.toc Repeat the entire tutorial from scratch Find out after which command report.toc is created Find out when the contents of this file change How is this file useful for two pass compilation? 4) Assignment on Number of compilations We compiled three times once to get correct page numbers At all other times, we had to compile only twice Explain 5) Assignment on Location of Table of Contents Shift the table of contents command down to before the document ends Where does the Contents page come when compiled? What would happen if this command is placed in the middle of the document? Where would you want to place this command in your report? 6) Assignment on use of the chapter command in report and article. Recall where we changed the class from article to report in this tutorial Suppose that we do not include the chapter command What happens to the section numbers - Explain If the command \chapter is included in the article class, what happens? 7) Assignment on Appendix in a report class Include the appendix command in a report class Include more chapters, before and after appendix How are the chapters that appear after the appendix command numbered? 8) Assignment on Appendix in an article class Include the appendix command in an article class Introduce some sections after the command appendix How are these sections numbered? 9) Assignment on Geometry package Do a web search and find out different ways of using the geometry package What parameters will give different right and left hand side margins? 10) Assignment on LaTeX classes Do a web search and find out how many different classes are available Download a few article and report style files and glance through them How many institutions in India have their own thesis templates? Write a report according to your institutions thesis template