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= LaTeX Session Plan & Outline =

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== 1 Session Plan with Time ==

|| Session Details || Time ||
|| '''Introduction''' ||  ||
|| - TeX & LaTeX || 5min ||
|| - Why LaTeX || 5min ||
|| '''First Document''' ||  ||
|| - writing the source, compiling || 5min ||
|| - what does it mean?, a few edits || 10min ||
|| '''Basic Structure''' ||  ||
|| - documentclass, Top matter || 10min ||
|| - sectioning commands, appendices || 10min ||
|| - Abstract, table of contents || 10min ||
|| '''Typesetting Text''' ||  ||
|| - emphasizing, quote marks, font styles, sub&super-script || 5min ||
|| - Lists || 10min ||
|| - Footnotes, quoting text, verbatim || 5min ||
|| - Listings package || 5min ||
|| '''Tables, Figures, Floats, Labels & Referencing''' ||  ||
|| - Tables || 10min ||
|| - Figures and Floats || 10min ||
|| - Labels, Cross-referencing, List of Tables & Figures || 5min ||
|| '''Mathematics''' || 25min ||
|| '''Bibliography''' ||  ||
|| - thebibliography environment, \cite || 10min ||
|| - BibTeX, Bibliography in ToC || 20min ||
|| '''Presentations''' ||  ||
|| - frames, title & info, text animation, themes, toc || 10min ||
|| Buffer || 10min ||

== 2 Outline ==

=== 2.1 Introduction ===

==== 2.1.1 What are TeX & LaTeX ====

==== 2.1.2 Why LaTeX? (WYSIWYG vs. WYSIWYM) ====

=== 2.2 First Document ===

==== 2.2.1 writing the source ====

==== 2.2.2 compiling, to get the document ====

  * only pdflatex 

==== 2.2.3 what does it mean? ====

  * \documentclass{article} 
    * environments 
  * \begin{document}, \end{document} 
  * %comments 

==== 2.2.4 A few edits to show the following ====

  * spaces, newline, new paragraph 
    * examples 
  * special characters \% \& \{ \} \\ \textbackslash 
  * nothing after the \end{document} is seen by LaTeX 

=== 2.3 Basic Structure ===

==== 2.3.1 documentclass ====

  * environments, commands - syntax 
    * commands begin with \ 
    * case sensitive 
    * any character other than letters – numbers, space or sp. chars. – terminate the command 
    * parameters { } 
    * optional parameters [ ] 
  * article, report, book, beamer, letter 
  * optional parameters 
    * font size 
    * paper size 
    * onecolumn, twocolumn 
    * draft 

==== 2.3.2 Titles/Top Matter ====

  * title 
  * author 
  * date 
  * maketitle 

==== 2.3.3 Sectioning Commands ====

  * part, chapter, section, subsection, subsubsection 
  * alternative short headings 
    * for TOC 
  * Section numbering 
    * secnumdepth 
    * tocdepth 
    * un-numbered sections 
    * compile twice 

==== 2.3.4 Appendices ====

==== 2.3.5 Abstract ====

  * \renewcommand 

==== 2.3.6 Table of contents ====

  * \tableofcontents 
  * \addcontentsline 
  * compile twice 

=== 2.4 Typesetting Text ===

==== 2.4.1 Text formatting ====

  * emphasizing text 
  * font styles and size 
    * \texttt, \textbf, \textsc … 
    * \uline, \uwave, \sout 
    * \tiny, \large, \Huge, … 
  * subscript, superscript 
  * quotation marks 

==== 2.4.2 Lists ====

  * itemize 
  * enumerate 
  * description 
  * nested lists 

==== 2.4.3 Special paragraphs ====

  * Footnotes 
  * quoting text 
  * verbatim 
  * Listings package 

=== 2.5 Tables, Figures, Floats, Labels & Referencing ===

==== 2.5.1 tabular environment ====

  * creating tables 
    * rows and columns 
  * positioning 
  * justifying text 
    * r, l, c 
  * lines 
    * |, hline, cline 

==== 2.5.2 Graphics ====

  * graphicx package 
    * supported image formats 
    * \includegraphics 
      * options - scale, height, width, angle 

==== 2.5.3 Floats ====

  * Figures 
  * Tables 
  * Captions 

==== 2.5.4 Labels and Cross-referencing ====

  * Floats 
  * Sections 

==== 2.5.5 List of Tables, Figures ====

  * listoftables 
  * listoffigures 

=== 2.6 Typesetting Math ===

==== 2.6.1 \usepackage{amsmath} ====

==== 2.6.2 Modes ====

  * inline 
  * displayed 

==== 2.6.3 Symbols ====

==== 2.6.4 Powers and indices ====

==== 2.6.5 Fractions ====

==== 2.6.6 Roots ====

==== 2.6.7 Sums and integrals ====

==== 2.6.8 Brackets ====

  * \left( \right) 

==== 2.6.9 Matrices ====

  * dots 

==== 2.6.10 spacing ====

  * \, \quad \qquad 

==== 2.6.11 Equation numbering ====

==== 2.6.12 align, align* ====

=== 2.7 Bibliography ===

==== 2.7.1 thebibliography environment ====

==== 2.7.2 Citations ====

  * \cite 
  * more specific [p. 207] 
  * multiple citations 

==== 2.7.3 BibTeX ====

  * writing a .bib file 
  * using it 
  * compiling 
  * Bibliography styles 

==== 2.7.4 Bibliography in ToC ====

=== 2.8 Beamer ===

==== 2.8.1 frames ====

==== 2.8.2 title page, information ====

==== 2.8.3 text animations ====

==== 2.8.4 themes ====

==== 2.8.5 table of contents ====