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Last meeting tomorrow

Written on 17.08.23 by Friedrich Günther

Dear participants,

please remember that tomorrow we will only meet in the morning from 10:15 onwards. The place still is lecture hall 001 in building E1.3.

Best,

Friedrich

Place and times are fixed

Written on 13.08.23 (last change on 15.08.23) by Friedrich Günther

Dear participants,

organisation is mostly finalised at this point. Here the key details:

The course will be taught in english
The course will take place in lecture hall 001 in building E1.3
The "lecture time" will be 10-16 each day (with adequate breaks between topics)
By the 15th, a… Read more

Dear participants,

organisation is mostly finalised at this point. Here the key details:

The course will be taught in english
The course will take place in lecture hall 001 in building E1.3
The "lecture time" will be 10-16 each day (with adequate breaks between topics)
By the 15th, a rough program will have been added to this news

Please bring laptops. We will take a look at several examples, which you are meant to compile and play with via overleaf.

Best,

Friedrich

Program:

Day 1

What is LaTeX, what is it good for?
Setting up a basic document
Common tasks

Day 2

Links, references, index
Bibliography using bibLaTeX and biber
Setting up a modular document
Typesetting mathematics with LaTeX

Day 3

2D sketches using TikZ, little example plots using TikZ/pgfplots, tikzcd
Typesetting source code
LaTeX beamer

Blockkurs Einführung in LaTeX / Introduction to LaTeX

Through august 16th to 18th an introductory course to LaTeX will take place. The course will be geared towards students of mathematics, but students from other faculties are welcome, too! Organisational details are mostly tba and do depend on the number of to be participants and special wishes on course material. This will be a voluntary affair without the award of credit points. A (n incomprehensive) list of covered topics:

Basic mechanisms of LaTeX, crude typography, fonts and advice
Horses for courses: Document classes, presets and how to find existing material
Links, references, index
Bibliography using BibLaTeX and biber, sources for bibliographic information
Typesetting mathematics (general rules of thumb, nice to know environments and hacks from IEEEtrantools, mathtools, etc.)
Basic 2D sketches using TikZ, an overview over pgfplots, tikzcd
Setting up modular documents
Typesetting source code
LaTeX beamer
Letters

The idea for this course is part interactive, part slides. Participants are encouraged to bring laptops. For an easy start Overleaf can be used. For unix based systems, help for installation of a local TeX distribution can be provided.

Please register as soon as possible and let me know what language (english/german) you would prefer. According to the number of to be participants, a room will be chosen and organisation will be finalised. Please use the comment function for wishes on extra material.