Part of CEPLAS Grad School offer
Place and Time: 25.32.03.21 (QTB Institute meeting room)
May 18 2016, Wednesday 15:30-18:30
May 19 2016, Thursday 15:00-18:00
May 20 2016, Friday 10:00-13:00 & 14:00-17:00
Contact: succurro [AT] hhu.de ; Office 25.32.03.26
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Dates: May 19-20, 2016
Place and Time: TBD
Aim of the 2-day course
These lectures are aimed at early-stage scientists with little or no previous experience with the LaTeX markup language. At the end of the course the participants will know how to structure a document, how to include the most commonly used floating environments and , how to manage bibliographic references and what extra packages they can use. Depending on time availability we will take a look at templates for theses and templates from scientific journals that ask you to send your work in LaTeX format.
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- If you use mendeley to manage your literature collection, you can export your references in bibTeX format and use it directly for your document
- Any kind of computer language - I obtain resume .tex files automatically from scripts
Shared Material
Material for LaTeX: Slides and additional material
Instructions
It is mandatory to arrive with a working LaTeX installation. This includes an editor of your choice, you can try different ones and opt for the preferred one. Here you can find installation instructions and a list of some available editors, but feel free to google and choose others. I only use Linux OS but if you have troubles with installation on Windows/Mac machines please get in touch reasonably soon.
Linux installation
Usually Linux OS come already with a LaTeX installation, check by running
$ latex
from shell. In order to have already the most commonly used packages installed it is recommended to extend the basic installation. In Fedora systems do
$ dnf install texlive-collection-latexrecommended texlive-collection-latexextra
In Debian systems do
$ apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-collection-latexextra
Windows installation
Follow instructions in http://www.howtotex.com/howto/installing-latex-on-windows/
Mac installation
Follow instructions in http://www.howtotex.com/howto/installing-latex-on-mac-os-x/