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#1 Update Readme units and geometry

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@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ The repository is organized in the next way. The `1_basics` folder includes info
## Webinar Contents ## ## Webinar Contents ##
Here you can find the highlights of each day lecture, to avoid repetitive points during the webinar. Here you can find the highlights of each day lecture, to avoid repetitive points during the webinar.
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### Day 1: Introduction (Marx) ### Day 1: Introduction (Marx)
* What is LaTeX? * What is LaTeX?
* How LaTeX works? * How LaTeX works?
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* A dummy text definition command * A dummy text definition command
#### Geometry and Lengths
##### Units
#### Geometry and Lengths
##### Geometry package
![](https://sharelatex-wiki-cdn-671420.c.cdn77.org/learn-scripts/images/f/fc/Layout-dimensions.png)
| Abbreviation | Value |
|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)|
mm a millimeter
cm a centimeter
in inch
ex roughly the height of an 'x' (lowercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)
em roughly the width of an 'M' (uppercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)
mu math unit equal to 1/18 em, where em is taken from the math symbols family
##### Units
The next table list the valid units used on LaTeX [^1].
| Abbreviation | Value |
|--------------|--------|
| `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)|
|`mm`| a millimeter|
|`cm`| a centimeter|
|`in`| inch|
|`ex` |roughly the height of an 'x' (lowercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)|
|`em` |roughly the width of an 'M' (uppercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)|
|`mu` |math unit equal to 1/18 em, where em is taken from the math symbols family|
[^1]: Extracted from [Overleaf](https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Lengths_in_LaTeX)
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### Day 2: Document Classes and Sectional Units ### ### Day 2: Document Classes and Sectional Units ###
### Day 3: Equations, Tables and Figures (Marx) ### ### Day 3: Equations, Tables and Figures (Marx) ###


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