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+# Introductory Course to \LaTeX
+
+## What even is \LaTeX?
+
+- 1978: Donald Knuth gets fed up by typographical errors in his documents and creates TeX
+- 1984: Leslie Lamport gets fed up with having to write bonkers TeX-commands and piles on a bunch of macros
+- 2025: We're here, still stuck with this ancient crap
+
+But actually, it is a pretty good **document preparation system**.
+
+(a modern alternative is *Typst*)
+
+## What even is a document preparation system?
+
+It is a system that prepares your documents!
+
+Crucial elements:
+
+- What are the contents of the document?
+- Where should all the words and sentences go?
+- What do we do about equations, figures and tables?
+- We need references and appendices and other things, right?!?
+
+## First Principle of \LaTeX
+
+> Separate content and presentation.
+
+- General classes/types of content
+- Styling applies to the entire document
+- Just write, and deal with making it pretty later
+- The publisher will mangle your document anyways
+
+## Second Principle of \LaTeX
+
+> Let *the system* handle book keeping.
+
+- Don't manually update captions and figure numbers
+- Don't manually update captions and table numbers
+- Don't manually write/update/sort your list of references
+
+## Now, how do we use it?
+
+Types of content
+
+- Frontmatter
+- Sections, subsections, paragraphs
+- Math: both inline and standalone
+- Figures and tables
+- References (bibiolgraphy)
+- Appendices
+
+## Document structure
+
+- Preamble
+- Frontmatter - title, table of content, list of figures/tables
+- (The acutal) Document
+    - Sections/Chapters
+        - Text
+        - Math
+        - Figures
+        - Tables
+- Bibliography
+- Appenices
+
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