Advanced LaTeX training workshop

A training workshop on LaTeX for non-beginners (or advanced LaTeX users) designed to provide detailed information and relevant pointers.

This workshop is free and open to CIRMMT members and students.

Prerequisite

Participants must have already used LaTeX at least once, in order to write a paper or a report, before attending the workshop.

Topics

Here is an excerpt of the list of topics to be presented (full list here):

  • defining commands with arguments
  • writing a style, a class, a package
  • tweaking your document layout (table of contents layout, headers, chapter/section title style)
  • getting organized for writing your paper
  • tricks for floats (tables, figures)
  • including and manipulating images, PDF documents
  • incorporating sounds and videos in a PDF (for LaTeX articles, reports, or beamer slides)
  • using multiple bibliographies in a single document

Details

More details, full list of topics, and materials can be found here.