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. 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.
Why should you write your thesis with LaTeX
Because (La)TeX was created to produce beautiful and professional texts. If this is not enough, consider the hassle of bibliography management: LaTeX does it for you. Think also about how often you will want to rearrange your content: LaTeX will take care of figures, tables, chapters and sections numbering. You can easily have hyper-references in your .pdf file and navigation through your document will be a piece of cake.
Other programs that work well with LaTeX
- 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
