From c8f54db761cdb9d2b35be5720742e06c6d39d910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B8rnar=20Kaarevik?= Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:13:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Started writing on the presentation --- presentation/presentation.md | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 presentation/presentation.md diff --git a/presentation/presentation.md b/presentation/presentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4be7ea3 --- /dev/null +++ b/presentation/presentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# 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 + +