Do you want to switch to an open-source alternative?
Do you want to know how to create professional-quality documents straight out of the box?
Do you love the idea of being able to update your bibliography style with just one command, without additional referencing software?
This two-part course is designed to get you confidently using LaTeX for your academic writing. It’s led by Dionysios Kyropoulos, a stage director, Professor of Historical Stagecraft at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and DPhil student in Music, as well as a former programmer. Dionysios has been using LaTeX for 10 years and has used it to write his DPhil thesis. For the second session we’ll also be joined by James Anderson, Assistant Professor in Engineering at Columbia University and LaTeX enthusiast.
Part 1 of the course splits into two: a morning learning the LaTex basics and an afternoon using it to get on with your own writing.
Then Part 2 is a Q&A and troubleshooting hour a week later, once you’ve had a chance to use the software and try to work through difficulties you encounter. In this session we’ll also offer some toy examples of errors for you to detect and fix, to get documents compiling properly and help build your LaTeX problem-solving skills.
