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🔥 latex-sp17-intermediate-workshop 🔥

Source files, links, and references for the 2017 Winter Quarter Intermediate Latex Workshop.

The tinyurl for this repo is https://tinyurl.com/intlatws.

Be sure to fill out the feedback form here!

(This is a follow up to the introductory workshop, which can be found here.)

You can follow along with the live code document.

Topics Covered

  • Math Mode Tricks
    • Text within math mode
    • Custom spacing
    • Vertical alignment
    • A variety of dots
    • Declaring operators
    • Fancy letters
    • Overlines and overbraces
    • Colors
  • AMS Goodies package
    • Custom environments
    • Proof environment
    • Cases
  • Tabular Stuff
    • Tabular environment
    • Tables and booktabs
    • Centering
  • Referencing
    • Labels
    • Back-references
    • Page numbers
    • Footnotes
    • Bibliographies
  • Including Code
    • Pseudo code
    • Syntax Highlighting
    • Including files directly
  • Diagrams
    • Tikz
    • Importing figures
  • Customization
    • Macros as shortcuts
    • Macros with parameters
  • Beamer

Getting Started

  1. Make sure that you have an account on ShareLatex.com
  2. Go to your Projects page, create a New Project and select Blank Project
  3. Get ready to follow along!

If you get stuck at any point, you can refer to the fully completed documents in this repo.

All of the tools discussed are linked below.

Reference

A complete version of the Sharelatex project can be found at https://www.sharelatex.com/project/5906f5202d1bf37d14367576.

  • Document Samples:
  • General Purpose
    • TexZilla: A REPL for Math expressions
    • Detexify: Find commands for unknown symbols.
    • Equation Editor GUI for generating code for more complicated expressions
    • Table Generator: GUI for designing tables that generates copy-pastable source code
    • CTAN: Hosts Latex packages, descriptions, and downloads.
  • For installing/using Latex on your local machine:
    • MikTeX: A Latex "distribution", includes compiler and some packages
      • Texmaker: A Latex IDE you can install locally

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