# How to Write your Next Thesis in LaTeX #

*An International Webinar between Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Jade University of Applied Science and Óbuda University*

## Repository organization
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.

## Webinar Contents ##
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)
  * What is LaTeX?
  * How LaTeX works?
  * Exploring Overleaf (Windows, organization, files)
  * Compiling a basic document 
  * Using basic commands and definitions 
  * document options and geometry
  * Defining new vars, paragraph spaces, tabulation space, and text sizes
  * A dummy text definition command


  #### Geometry and Lengths

  ##### Geometry package 

  ![](https://sharelatex-wiki-cdn-671420.c.cdn77.org/learn-scripts/images/f/fc/Layout-dimensions.png)

  ##### 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 3: Equations, Tables and Figures (Marx) ###
### Day 4: Plots with PGFPlots package(Marx) ###
  * Making plots from equation 
  * Plotting data from a simple experiment 
  * Title, labels, and ticks configuration
  * Multi-trace plots and its configuration
  * Bar and scatter plots
  * Reading data from a `CSV` files
### Day 5: References with Bibtex ###