This course is intended to convey the basic handling of LaTeX from the very first steps to everyday use.

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Content

Basic concept of the TeX language:

• What is LaTeX?
• LaTeX language
• Program system and development environment
• Workflows with LaTeX

Structuring a document:

• Structure of a document
• Document classes
• Packages
• Logical structure
• Paragraphs and breaks
• Special characters & symbols
• Manage large documents

Fonts:

• overview
• Font family
• Font weight
• written form font size
• Change of fonts
• Additional fonts
• Low-level interface

Formatting text:

• Text alignment
• Indented texts
• Lists
• Footnotes
• Tabs

Tables:

• Formatting
• Dividing lines
• Floats

Definition of own structures:

• Counter
• Lengths
• Commands
• Environments
• Lists

Page layout:

• Adjustment of the page size
• Page styles
• Multi-column set

Mathematical formulas:

• Basics
• Formulas in the document
• Math expressions

Directories:

• Keyword index
• Bibliography

Boxing:

• Basics
• LR boxes
• Sales boxes
• Bar boxes
• Box register

Graphics, images and PDF specialties:

• Integration of external images
• Positioning of images
• Rotation & scaling of content
• Colour
• Hypertext in PDF documents

Timeframe

• 8 course hours, 16 time hours