Welcome! This is a guided walkthrough of the major concepts from the online tutorial, LearnLaTeX, for the graduate community at UC Davis.
Three sessions last ~2 hours each (~1 hour of content, ~1 hour of typesetting). Each session will be interactive with participants writing and typesetting simple LaTeX files. Experience LaTeX users will be available to answer your questions.
You will not need to download any software to participate. We primarily use Overleaf to edit and typeset TeX files.
On Day 3, I will cover how to use common LaTeX templates, including a CV and a Beamer template.
Recordings for the first hour of each workshop are available below:
- Based on Lessons 1-8 from learnlatex.org
- Prerequisites:
- Create Overleaf account
- Join UC Davis Slack channel +
#latex101channel
- Agenda:
- Based on Lessons 9-14 from learnlatex.org
- Agenda:
- Prerequisites:
- Bring either a CV or presentation slides you want to convert
- Agenda:
- Go over templates (~40 minutes)
- Work on CVs/Beamer slides (~1 hour)
- Overleaf Documentation
- Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
- Symbols list (check pdfs at bottom of page)
- Detexify - Draw a symbol and see the corresponding LaTeX command.
- Tables Generator - Draw a table with WYSIWYG interface, get the LaTeX code for it.
- LaTeX Forums -- Other places you can go for help
- #latex101, #latex channels on UC Davis Slack (UC Davis only)
- r/latex
- TeX on Stack Exchange
- Inkscape - For drawing figures with embedded LaTeX