LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists

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Syllabus

Topic 1: Introduction
This topic introduces the learner to LaTeX, its installation, and different IDEs. The learner creates the first document using LaTeX, organizes content into sections using article and book class of LaTeX.

Topic 2: Styling Pages
In this topic, the session starts by reviewing different paper sizes, examines packages, formats the page by setting margins, customizing header and footer, changing the page orientation, dividing the document into multiple columns. The topic ends with reading different types of error messages.

Topic 3: Formatting Content
This topic concentrates on formatting text (styles, size, alignment), adding colors to text and entire page, and adding bullets and numbered items. It concludes by explaining the process of writing complex mathematics.

Topic 4: Tables and Images
The topic starts by creating basic tables, adding simple and dashed borders, merging rows and columns, and handling situations where a table exceeds the size of a page. The sessions then continue to add an image, explore different properties like rotate, scale, etc..

Topic 5: Referencing and Indexing
In this topic, the learner learns to add cross-referencing (refer to sections, table, images), add bibliography (references), and create back index.

Topic 6: Presentation using Beamer
Introduction to creating slides, adding frames, dividing the slide into multiple columns, adding different blocks, etc..

Prerequisite

There are no prerequisites for this course, except knowledge of editing text. The course can be taken by any learner who wants to create documents using LaTeX.

Instructors

Deepak B. Phatak
Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IITBombay

Firuza Karmali (Aibara)
Project Manager, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IITBombay

Nagesh Karmali
Sr. Manager (Research), Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IITBombay

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