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.

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

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