Engineering Methods

	Engineering Methods Academic year 2025/26
	Exercise 2
	Refining the conceptual design of the project Tasks back Refining the conceptual design of the project In the last exercise, you became a member of a team. In this exercise, consult the refinement of the conceptual design of your team's project proposal with the instructor. In addition, you should complete several tasks (see below) individually. The materialization of the description of the current state in the field (state-of-the-art) into which your project will fall will be a review article. You will use the typographic tool LaTeX to write the article. It is available in several implementations. One of them is MiKTeX. In the exercises, you will work with MiKTeX. You will write the actual text in a text editor. The MiKTeX distribution includes the TeXworks editor (TeXworks.exe in the miktex\bin subdirectory of the MiKTeX installation directory), but you can also use another editor. The output of LaTeX for further use is usually a PDF file, which you can view using, for example, Acrobat Reader. Tasks Install MiKTeX as a TeX distribution for Windows, Linux, or macOS. Download the article example and the file with bibliographic sources that this article references. Try to modify the article: add another section (\section{}), another paragraph (separated by one or more blank lines). Change the document class (\documentclass{}) to coursepaper and compile the article. Observe how the document class change is reflected in the article's typesetting. Change the bibliography style (\bibliographystyle{}) to abbrv or alpha. Notice how it changes the literature list and references in the text. These are just some of the available bibliography styles. Create a new text file. Write any text in it. Add the line \input{novy.tex} to the text in the example.tex file and observe what happens after compilation. Compare the local installation of the MiKTeX distribution and TeXworks editor with the solution presented in the first two chapters about collaborative writing. Complete task 2.1.5. Make sure you understand task 2.1.6. Set up document sharing according to task 2.1.8 for your instructor. Continue with tasks 2.1.9 through 2.1.12. You can also edit LaTeX files in other text editors (e.g., Notepad+, TextPad, etc.). In that case, you may need to run LaTeX compilation from the command line. Compile the article example from this exercise from the command line. To do this, first find the miktex directory in the MiKTeX program installation directory. The commands you will need are in the bin subdirectory. Therefore, it would be best to add the path leading to this directory to the PATH system variable (Control Panel - System and security - System - Advanced system settings). Only after this, open the command line and compile the article with the command texify clanok.tex Notice that a clanok.dvi file is created, which you can also view. The texify program also processed the bibliography. Subsequently, you can obtain a PDF file like this pdflatex clanok.tex The pdflatex itself does not process the bibliography from the BIB file.