Using LaTeX for document formatting
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If you are spending too much time on document formatting, come and find out about using LaTeX, a free software for creating professional documents.
In this free session, you will receive peer-to-peer support from a research ambassador who will guide you through using this type-setting system.
Benefits of using LaTeX
LaTeX is free software available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and online that you can use for these tasks:
- creating conference and journal articles, scientific documents, and books as well as many other forms of publishing
- changing the appearance of text with ease within existing templates
- simplifying the more complicated parts of typesetting such as inputting mathematical equations, adding footnotes, referencing and creating bibliographies, creating tables of contents, and having a consistent layout across all sections.
If you use LaTeX for your research, please refer to the conditions of LaTeX Project Public License to include an explicit copyright notice and a statement in each of the components of your work.
LaTeX training
Research Ambassador Sudha Subramani (who is a current user of LaTeX) will discuss:
LaTeX basics:
- creating your first LaTeX document
- choosing a LaTeX compiler
- adding a title, author and abstract
- paragraphs and new lines
- bold, italics and underlining.
More advanced:
- creating mathematical expressions
- subscripts and superscripts
- aligning equations
- creating tables and inserting images
- references and citations
- bibliography management in LaTeX.
Please bring your own device to download the software.
Register

When?
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Thursday 2 May 2019, 11am -12pm
Where?
Footscray Park
Ballarat Road
Footscray
Australia
Footscray Park Library, Training Room P307