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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

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