LaTeX for Professional Publications
What you'll learn
- Learn the basics of creating a document in LaTex
- Be able to import and layout graphics
- Manage citations and references with biobliographies and bibligraphy styles
- Format and number graphics, tables, and sections
- Create well formatted mathematical equations, algorithms, and proofs
Requirements
- You must be able to download and install software on your computer
Description
This course is open to anyone who wants to learn how to create a professional quality, typeset publication. In addition to improving the aesthetic quality of your work, LaTeX users benefit from automating many of the tedious processes involved in writing a professional publication.
LaTeX allows you to manage references, figures, tables, footnotes, formatting, mathematical equations, algorithms, scientific proofs, and more in a programmatic fashion that provides benefits far exceeding that of word processing software.
Need to format a paper for a specific venue? Many academic journals and conferences provide LaTeX Style files (.sty) for correctly typesetting your submission. With one line of code, you can modify your publication to match the style of many leading academic publishing outlets.
Not writing a paper? LaTeX can also be used for books, reports, technical and business documents, screenplays, resumes, letters ... anything you want to write!
The course uses tools that are freely available online for Mac (Linux) and Windows users. Templates are included for download to get you started.
Who this course is for:
- LaTeX beginners: no previous typesetting or programming experience required
- Specifically geared to academic writers, but useful to anyone who wants to create professionally typeset documents
- Graduate students, especially in math and science fields
- Academic researchers
- Anyone who writes!
Course content
- Preview04:38
- 02:45LaTeX environment on Mac (Linux)
- 01:38LaTeX environment on Windows
- 01:46Download sample files
- 12:53Typeset your first document
Instructor
![Toni Farley](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 1,229 Reviews
- 4,530 Students
- 1 Course
Dr. Farley has 10 years of experience in information science, including 3 years in information and systems security research, 4 years teaching university courses in data management, and 3 years performing data integration and knowledge management in the biomedical domain. Her prior related experience includes 8 years of business management and accounting, with 2 in the health insurance industry.
Her accomplishments include 22 publications, numerous presentations, an AT&T Labs--Research Graduate Fellowship, a university grant award for learner-centered course redesign, and successfully directing a study abroad internship and learning program in South Africa on technology in a transitional society.
She is currently a Bioinformatician II in the Center for BioIntelligence at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). Additionally, she maintains Faculty Associate positions in computer science and informatics at Arizona State University (ASU), and is on the executive committee of her local International Test and Evaluation Association chapter (AZITEA).