Repository for the international webinar 2021, prepared with Jade, ITM, and Óbuda universities.
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  1. # How to Write your Next Thesis in LaTeX #
  2. *An International Webinar between Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Jade University of Applied Science and Óbuda University*
  3. ## Repository organization
  4. The repository is organized in the next way. The `1_basics` folder includes information (presentations or guides), examples source code, and any other useful information that the attendant can review during or after the webinar.
  5. ## Webinar Contents ##
  6. Here you can find the highlights of each day lecture, to avoid repetitive points during the webinar.
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  8. ### Day 1: Introduction (Marx)
  9. * What is LaTeX?
  10. * How LaTeX works?
  11. * Exploring Overleaf (Windows, organization, files)
  12. * Compiling a basic document
  13. * Using basic commands and definitions
  14. * document options and geometry
  15. * Defining new vars, paragraph spaces, tabulation space, and text sizes
  16. * A dummy text definition command
  17. Here are some basic but useful information about the eexamples and packages that we use during the webinar. If you require more deep information you can visit the links provided along the Readme file.
  18. #### Example 3: Geometry and Lengths
  19. ##### Geometry package
  20. The geometry
  21. ![](https://sharelatex-wiki-cdn-671420.c.cdn77.org/learn-scripts/images/f/fc/Layout-dimensions.png)
  22. ##### Units
  23. The next table list the valid units used on LaTeX [^1].
  24. | Abbreviation | Value |
  25. |--------------|--------|
  26. | `pt` | a point is approximately 1/72.27 inch, that means about 0.0138 inch or 0.3515 mm (exactly point is defined as 1/864 of American printer’s foot that is 249/250 of English foot)|
  27. |`mm`| a millimeter|
  28. |`cm`| a centimeter|
  29. |`in`| inch|
  30. |`ex` |roughly the height of an 'x' (lowercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)|
  31. |`em` |roughly the width of an 'M' (uppercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)|
  32. |`mu` |math unit equal to 1/18 em, where em is taken from the math symbols family|
  33. [^1]: Extracted from [Overleaf](https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Lengths_in_LaTeX)
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  35. ### Day 2: Document Classes and Sectional Units ###
  36. ### Day 3: Equations, Tables and Figures (Marx) ###
  37. ### Day 4: Plots with PGFPlots package(Marx) ###
  38. * Making plots from equation
  39. * Plotting data from a simple experiment
  40. * Title, labels, and ticks configuration
  41. * Multi-trace plots and its configuration
  42. * Bar and scatter plots
  43. * Reading data from a `CSV` files
  44. ### Day 5: References with Bibtex ###