LaTeX course

Learn to create professional-looking documents, articles, and presentations using LaTeX in this comprehensive course from the University of Amsterdam. Begin with installation and basic typesetting, then progress to writing mathematical texts, structuring documents, and handling errors. Explore advanced topics such as creating complex mathematical expressions, using the uvamath document class, and designing presentations with LaTeX Beamer. Gain practical experience through homework exercises and rewriting assignments. Delve into specialized areas including bibliography management with BibTeX, creating images using TikZ, and designing posters. For Dutch speakers, benefit from a dedicated section on writing guidelines for mathematics in Dutch using LaTeX.

Syllabus

Week 1
- 1. Installing LaTeX
  - TeX Live or MacTeX.
- 2. Hello world!
  - Typesetting your first document in TeXworks.
- 3. Basics
  - LaTeX fundamentals
- 4. Writing mathematical texts
  - Math environment, characters, powers and indices, operators, fractions, roots, dots, matrices, brackets, horizontal whitespace, layout, list of symbols.
- 5. Writing texts
  - Special characters and accents, paragraphs, non-breaking space, emphasis, lists, verbatim, url and quoting.
- 6. Errors and warnings
  - Error fixing 101.
- 7. Homework
  - LaTeXing a homework exercise.
Week 2
- 8. Nederlandse schrijfgids (Dutch writing guide)
  - Nederlandse stijlregels voor wiskunde en LaTeX.
- 9. Rewriting poor work
  - Exercise in editing
- 10. Structure
  - Structure of a LaTeX file, document classes, packages, topmatter, groups, commands and environments.
- 11. Advanced mathematics
  - Gather, align, matrices, text in mathematical expressions, cases, multiline subscripts, references.
Week 3
- 12. Document class uvamath
  - The uvamath document class.
- 13. Advanced document structure
  - Writing an article. Chapters, sections, paragraphs, theorems, figures, tables, floats, references, bibliography.
Week 4
- 14. LaTeX Beamer
  - Presentations with LaTeX Beamer.
Extra
- 15. Bibliography and citations in LaTeX
  - Making a bibliography.
- 16. Proper citations in the text
  - Proper citations in the text.
- 17. BibTex
  - Working with Bibtex.
- 18. TikZ
  - Creating images with TikZ.
- 19. Posters
  - Creating a poster in LaTeX.