Creating High-Quality Documents with LaTeX
Want more control over how your documents look and function? LaTeX is an open-source typesetting system used to create clean, consistent, and professional documents. It’s especially helpful for working with complex formatting, citations, or mathematical content, and it’s a powerful tool for writing reports, articles, and long-form texts in any discipline.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll learn the building blocks of LaTeX, including how to format text, structure a document, and write equations. You’ll also walk through the process of creating your first LaTeX document from scratch.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the basic structure and purpose of LaTeX documents
- Format text and write mathematical equations using LaTeX commands
- Create and compile a basic LaTeX document
This session is ideal for students, researchers, and writers in any field who want to explore LaTeX as a powerful alternative to traditional word processors—no prior experience required.
Workshop Preparation
Register for an account on https://overleaf.com
Facilitator Bio
John Fink is the Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Sherman Centre.
Workshop Slides
Coming soon.