LaTeX is the gold standard for document preparation in academia. In this two-hour, single-session IAP event we saw how easy it is to make professional-looking papers and résumés; got you typesetting math like a pro; and finished by examining Beamer, a powerful LaTeX package for creating slideshow presentations.
| Date and time: |
Wednesday, January 18, 2011, 5–7 pm Wednesday, January 25, 2011, 5–7 pm (essentially identical content was presented at each session) |
| Location: | 1-115 (room has Athena workstations for in-class practice) |
| Prerequisites: | none; registration was not required |
| Contact: | Benjamin Barenblat, sipb-iap-latex@mit.edu |
Course materials from the January 18 class are now available for download. All materials are dual licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license and the GNU Free Documentation License.
| Presentation: | |
| LaTeX source: bzipped tarball, zip archive | |
| Sample document: | LaTeX source: bzipped tarball, zip archive |
References I discussed during the presentation include: