Course description
This course aims to teach the basics of LaTeX, from the very first steps to everyday use.
Registration
All current courses can be found in RWTHonline via the course search.
Contents/Procedure
Basic concept of the TeX language:
- What is LaTeX
- LaTeX language
- Program system and development environment
- Workflows with LaTeX
Structuring a document:
- Structure of a document
- Document classes
- Packages
- Logical structure
- Paragraphs and breaks
- Special characters & symbols
- Managing large documents
Fonts:
- Overview
- Font family
- Font weight
- Font style
- Font size
- Changing fonts
- Additional fonts
- Low-level interface
Formatting text:
- Text alignment
- Indented text
- Lists
- Footnotes
- Tabs
Tables:
- Formatting
- Separator lines
- Floating objects
Defining your own structures:
- Counters
- Lengths
- Commands
- Environments
- Lists
Page layout:
- Adjusting the page size
- Page styles
- Multi-column typesetting
Mathematical formulas:
- Basics
- Formulas in the document
- Mathematical expressions
Directories:
- Index
- Bibliography
Boxes:
- Basics
- LR boxes
- Paragraph boxes
- Bar boxes
- Box registers
Graphics, images, and PDF specialties:
- Embedding external images
- Positioning illustrations
- Rotating and scaling content
- Color
- Hypertext in PDF documents
Time frame
8 course hours, 16 hours