Using LaTeX for document formatting

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

Register for Research Ambassador help with using LaTeX.