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@title What is LATEX?
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@title Origin
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- Donald Knuth, 1977–1986: typesetting system TeXτεχ → /tɛç, tɛx, tɛk/ for The Art of Computer Programming
- Leslie Lamport, from 1980s: software package LaTeX made TeX easier to use
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@title 5 Reasons for LaTeX
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- Besides Word, LaTeX is one of the two dominant typesetting systems in the academic world.
- ++ Mathematical formulas feel most at home in LaTeX. This is why the LaTeX formula notation has been integrated into numerous other tools (e. g. OneNote, Word, Wikipedia, …).
- ++ There are countless packages for the most diverse areas of application.
- ++ LaTeX was developed to produce aesthetically pleasing typesetting — and you can see that in the texts it produces.
- ++ Complex documents typeset in LaTeX facilitate collaboration enormously (e. g. through versioning, proper document structuring, templates, reliable undo, …).
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@title LaTeX' Shortcomings
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- Typesetting text can be cumbersome, especially for short documents.
- Layout adjustments are only possible within certain limits.
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?. Scientometrics 126, 8259–8273 (2021).
(TL;DR: LaTeX users make more errors, they need more time except when it comes to formulas, but they are happier with their tool.)
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@title Procedure of this workshop
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Goal: you are going to build your own little
LaTeX manual based on our LaTeX script.
- learning by doing
- understanding how LaTeX works
- details can be looked up later
**Outline:**
What is LaTeX?- How does LaTeX work?
- Basic structure of a LaTeX document
- Project structure
- Lots of features
- Reference management
- Outlook
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