{"id":410,"date":"2019-10-09T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/?p=410"},"modified":"2019-11-13T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:05:35","slug":"11-october-peter-spacek-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2019\/10\/09\/11-october-peter-spacek-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"A practical introduction to LaTeX (Peter Spacek)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">16:00, October 11, Kennedy Seminar Room 2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\"><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> LaTeX (pronounced &#8220;lay-tech&#8221;) is the norm for current mathematical writing; (almost) all mathematical journals require articles to be written in LaTeX. With its many automatic features, such as rendering lay-out and referencing, it is also a very practical word processor. Most importantly, it accommodates mathematical equations with great ease, which is a great improvement over the likes of Microsoft Office, and therefore of use for statisticians as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">In Peter&#8217;s talk, he will introduce LaTeX from a practical viewpoint, a tentative outline is:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">&#8211; Basics (writing text and equations, sections, cross-references,\u00a0&#8230;)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">&#8211; Document classes and packages (including beamer: &#8220;LaTeX PowerPoint&#8221;)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">&#8211; Tricks (defining\u00a0commands, using spacing, including subdocuments, &#8230;)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">&#8211; Citing literature (BibTeX and\u00a0finding bibliography entries)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">&#8211; Other miscellany (writing in different languages, &#8230;)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16:00, October 11, Kennedy Seminar Room 2 Abstract: LaTeX (pronounced &#8220;lay-tech&#8221;) is the norm for current mathematical writing; (almost) all mathematical journals require articles to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2019\/10\/09\/11-october-peter-spacek-maths\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}