Lesson Overview

This week, let’s switch gears a little and talk about everyone’s favorite topic, typesetting! We will explore using Latex to create beautiful, self-consistent, documents that are publication quality.

Specifically, you will learn about:

1. The basics of Latex
2. Referencing with Bibtex

Learning Goals

After this week you should be able to:

• Use Latex to create professional documents
• Understand basic Latex syntax
• Include complex elements such as figures, lists and tables in your documents.
• Incorporate simple and complex mathematics in your documents.
• Use self-consistent cross-referencing within Latex to reference different document elements.
• Create a bibtex database and link it to your latex document to enable consistent citations and referencing.