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What is L<sup style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 73%; margin-left: -.25em; margin-right: -.05em; position: relative; top: .2em">A</sup>T<sub style="font-size: 100%; margin-left: -.1em">E</sub>X?
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Origin
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* Donald **Knuth**, 19771986: typesetting system **TeX**<span class="bubble fragment" style="margin-top: -3em;">τεχ → /tɛç, tɛx, tɛk/</span> for The Art of Computer Programming
* Leslie **Lamport**, from 1980s: software package **LaTeX** made TeX easier to use
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<figure><img src="svg/chapter-01/knuth.jpg" style="height: 13em"/><figcaption>Donald Knuth</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="svg/chapter-01/lamport.jpg" style="height: 13em"/><figcaption>Leslie Lamport</figcaption></figure>
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5 Reasons for LaTeX
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1. Besides Word, LaTeX is **one of the two dominant typesetting systems** in the academic world.
2. ++ **Mathematical formulas** feel most at home in LaTeX. This is why the LaTeX formula notation has been integrated into numerous other tools (e.&thinsp;g. OneNote, Word, Wikipedia, …).
3. ++ There are **countless packages** for the most diverse areas of application.
4. ++ LaTeX was developed to produce **aesthetically pleasing typesetting**&thinsp;&thinsp;and you can see that in the texts it produces.
5. ++ Complex documents typeset in LaTeX **facilitate collaboration** enormously (e.&thinsp;g. through versioning, proper document structuring, templates, reliable undo, …).
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LaTeX' Shortcomings
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* Typesetting text can be **cumbersome**, especially for short documents.
* **Layout adjustments** are only possible within certain limits.
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The “LaTeX vs. Word” debate is very old. If you are interested in tracing it, we can recommend the following article as a starting point:
Moorhead, A.V. [**Is LaTeX use correlated with the number of equations in a manuscript?**](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-04119-2). Scientometrics 126, 82598273 (2021).
<small style="font-size: 60%; line-height: 1.5em">(TL;DR: LaTeX users make more errors, they need more time except when it comes to formulas, but they are happier with their tool.)</small>
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Procedure of this workshop
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**Goal:** you are going to build your own little <br />LaTeX manual based on our [LaTeX script](https://github.com/fs-wiai/latex-script/).
* learning by doing
* understanding how LaTeX works
* details can be looked up later
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**Outline:**
1. ~~What is LaTeX?~~
2. How does LaTeX work?
3. Basic structure of a LaTeX document
4. Project structure
5. Lots of features
6. Reference management
7. Outlook
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