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Possible Topics for Next Latex Workshop
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Latex Workshop Topics

Previous workshop notes: (https://github.com/UCSD-SUMS/latex-w17-workshop/blob/master/Presentation%20Notes.md)

Introduction

  • Why Latex
    • Demos of actual LaTeX docs
  • Compiling a minimal document
    • What is an environment?
  • Titles and sections
  • The Preamble
  • Sections and subsections
  • Document Classes
  • Math Examples
    • Inline, equation, align environments
  • Packages

Possible Intermediate Topics

  • Reproducible Research
  • Graphics and Figures
  • Tables
  • Macros
  • Large projects, including files and subfiles
  • References
    • Footnotes
    • Bibliography / BibTex
  • Using tables and tab-aligned environments
  • Creating your own macros and commands
  • Including and highlighting source code from programs
  • Running programs from within Latex and including the output (e.g. Knitr, Sweave)
  • Packages for styling pseudocode
  • Exploring other document classes (memoir for books, beamer for presentations, etc)
  • Making your own document classes
  • Using Tikz for diagrams
  • Installing Latex on your own computer
  • Adding colorful text
  • Creating a resume/CV
  • Submitting to an academic journal or conference proceeding
  • Latex variants/alternatives - markdown, code notebooks, etc.
  • Making custom document classes (pretty advanced though)
@hu-simon
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  • Making custom document classes (pretty advanced though)

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oskarhenriksson commented Apr 9, 2017 •
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A few comments (might update this later):

For the intro workshop

  • Might be worth mentioning how to include graphics already in the introductory workshop.

For the intermediate workshop

I think these topics are the ones that are most interesting and important for math majors:

  • Graphics
  • Tables
  • Creating your own macros and commands
  • Including highlighted source code
  • Bibliography
  • References to equations, figures etc.
  • Maybe, possibly the amsthm package?
  • Quickly introducing Tikz and beamer (in slightly more detail than in the intro workshop).

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I updated my previous comment with a few more suggestions.

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