This course aims to teach students how to effectively use LaTeX for typesetting documents. By the end of the course, students will be able to install LaTeX, write mathematical and text-based content, handle errors, structure documents, create presentations, work with bibliographies and citations, utilize TikZ for creating images, and design posters. The course covers topics such as LaTeX fundamentals, mathematical expressions, document structure, Beamer for presentations, BibTex for references, and uvamath document class. The intended audience for this course includes students, researchers, academics, and professionals looking to enhance their document formatting skills using LaTeX.
Overview
Syllabus
- Week 1
- 1. Installing LaTeX
- TeX Live or MacTeX.
- 2. Hello world!
- Typesetting your first document in TeXworks.
- 3. Basics
- LaTeX fundamentals
- 4. Writing mathematical texts
- Math environment, characters, powers and indices, operators, fractions, roots, dots, matrices, brackets, horizontal whitespace, layout, list of symbols.
- 5. Writing texts
- Special characters and accents, paragraphs, non-breaking space, emphasis, lists, verbatim, url and quoting.
- 6. Errors and warnings
- Error fixing 101.
- 7. Homework
- LaTeXing a homework exercise.
- 1. Installing LaTeX
- Week 2
- 8. Nederlandse schrijfgids (Dutch writing guide)
- Nederlandse stijlregels voor wiskunde en LaTeX.
- 9. Rewriting poor work
- Exercise in editing
- 10. Structure
- Structure of a LaTeX file, document classes, packages, topmatter, groups, commands and environments.
- 11. Advanced mathematics
- Gather, align, matrices, text in mathematical expressions, cases, multiline subscripts, references.
- 8. Nederlandse schrijfgids (Dutch writing guide)
- Week 3
- 12. Document class uvamath
- The uvamath document class.
- 13. Advanced document structure
- Writing an article. Chapters, sections, paragraphs, theorems, figures, tables, floats, references, bibliography.
- 12. Document class uvamath
- Week 4
- 14. LaTeX Beamer
- Presentations with LaTeX Beamer.
- 14. LaTeX Beamer
- Extra
- 15. Bibliography and citations in LaTeX
- Making a bibliography.
- 16. Proper citations in the text
- Proper citations in the text.
- 17. BibTex
- Working with Bibtex.
- 18. TikZ
- Creating images with TikZ.
- 19. Posters
- Creating a poster in LaTeX.
- 15. Bibliography and citations in LaTeX
