Did you ever wish you could just tell Microsoft Word or any other word processor exactly how it should look without clicking through layers and layers of settings windows and buttons? Did you ever find typing equations to be far more difficult than writing them by hand? Did you ever wonder why so many textbooks look similar in layout and font and have such pretty math formulas? Did you ever consider these questions to have a related solution? They do; LaTeX is a typesetting programming language developed for writing documents, including those with equations!
Using simple commands that often match what you think while writing on paper, LaTeX takes your document with the commands and does all the hard work of making it look good. In this workshop, we will introduce the basic LaTeX commands to get you started on the path of writing scientific documents with ease. You will think twice before you ever consider using a word processor again.
Please join us for a LaTeX workshop on Tuesday, March 1st at 3pm in LSL N410. Registration is NOT required! Snacks will be provided.
Please bring your laptop that has the LaTeX package for your platform.
+ Everyone (OS does not matter):
>> – TexMaker = http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html
>> (I recommend this one for all beginners, but they can use another
>> editor if they prefer)
>> + Windows users:
>> – MiKTeX = http://miktex.org/download
>> + Linux users:
>> – LaTeX = sudo apt-get install latex
>> – TexLive = sudo apt-get install texlive
>> + Mac users:
>> – MacTeX = https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html
