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LaTeX for Beginners

Qualifications needed

This course is intended for complete beginners and assumes no prior knowledge of LaTeX or any other computing language.

Course information

This beginners course will introduce the essential elements of LaTeX, the de facto standard for academic document preparation across disciplines, particularly  Maths, Physics, Computer Science and Humanities. The course is delivered in-person in a PC classroom; no other device is required as participants will use the classroom PCs and LaTeX environment.

This course is not open to those on Taught Postgraduate or Undergraduate programmes of study.

What previous participants have said:

• " This was an excellent introductory course and will give you all the basics required to produce your first academic documents with LaTeX. "
• " I was working on a review and shifted to LaTeX immediately after the workshop. I plan to use it for the remaining documents as well as for my PhD thesis."
• "Latex is an incredibly powerful tool for document production and is worth the steep learning curve."

Aims and objectives

By the end of the course, you will understand the key differences between LaTeX document production and word processing. You will be able to produce simple, professional quality, structured documents with:

• -Sections
• -Cross-references
• -Mathematics
• -Tables and figures
• -Automatically generated cross-references
• -Lists of illustrations,
• -Bibliographies and Table of Contents
• -Formatting and styling options

Your finished work will be typeset and ready for peer-review, press-ready for print publication and / or distribution online.

Participants will gain an appreciation of the fundamentals of LaTeX typography, page layout and other page design principles, with links to further study and resources for collaborative editing and workflows.

Tutors

Mr Owen Daily

Venue

Butts Wynd PC Classroom: BWD 01

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk