Course Description
The objective is to provide the participants with a platform to learn features for typesetting journal articles, technical reports, books and slide presentations. This 2 day course intends to allow participants to learn LaTeX quickly and successfully. Therefore, the participants equipped with the knowledge of LaTeX to produce excellent technical documentations.

Prerequisite:
None

Duration:
2 Full Days

Content:

Day 1
Fundamentals and Basics
• Special symbols
• Commands and environments
• Document layout and organization

Text Formatting
• Font family/style/size/commands
• Lists, Boxes and Tables
• Footnotes and marginal notes
• Various text environments (e.g. minipage, theorem, proof, verbatim)

Typesetting Mathematical Formulas
• Constants and Variables
• Exponents and indices
• Sums and Integrals
• Function names
• Mathematical symbols and accents
• Arrays and matrices
• Various mathematical environments (e.g. align, gather)

Day 2
Figures and Pictures
• Creating and importing figures
• Figure captions Commands and environments
• Various picture elements (e.g. lines, arrows, rectangles, circles, ovals)

Document Preparation Techniques
• for Manuscripts
• for Thesis
• for Slides
• Cross-referencing
• Fancy headers

Conclusion

Who Should Attend:
The primary target audiences for this course are researchers, scientists, academicians and just about anyone who wants to learn LaTeX to produce high-quality printout outputs with reasonable amount of effort.