Possible Topics for Next Latex Workshop

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Latex Workshop Topics

Previous workshop notes: (https://github.com/UCSD-SUMS/latex-w17-workshop/blob/master/Presentation%20Notes.md)

Introduction

• Why Latex
  • Demos of actual LaTeX docs
• Compiling a minimal document
  • What is an environment?
• Titles and sections
• The Preamble
• Sections and subsections
• Document Classes
• Math Examples
  • Inline, equation, align environments
• Packages

Possible Intermediate Topics

• Reproducible Research
• Graphics and Figures
• Tables
• Macros
• Large projects, including files and subfiles
• References
  • Footnotes
  • Bibliography / BibTex
• Using tables and tab-aligned environments
• Creating your own macros and commands
• Including and highlighting source code from programs
• Running programs from within Latex and including the output (e.g. Knitr, Sweave)
• Packages for styling pseudocode
• Exploring other document classes (memoir for books, beamer for presentations, etc)
• Making your own document classes
• Using Tikz for diagrams
• Installing Latex on your own computer
• Adding colorful text
• Creating a resume/CV
• Submitting to an academic journal or conference proceeding
• Latex variants/alternatives - markdown, code notebooks, etc.
• Making custom document classes (pretty advanced though)

• Making custom document classes (pretty advanced though)

A few comments (might update this later):

For the intro workshop

• Might be worth mentioning how to include graphics already in the introductory workshop.

For the intermediate workshop

I think these topics are the ones that are most interesting and important for math majors:

• Graphics
• Tables
• Creating your own macros and commands
• Including highlighted source code
• Bibliography
• References to equations, figures etc.
• Maybe, possibly the amsthm package?
• Quickly introducing Tikz and beamer (in slightly more detail than in the intro workshop).

I updated my previous comment with a few more suggestions.