October 13, 10am - 4pm (last day of fall recess)

If you don't have LaTeX installed on your computer, please do so.
Windows: the preferred environment is MikTeX, available from http://miktex.org/.
It's free!
For those installing MikTeX for the first time on their Windows system, I asked one of my graduate students to perform this installation on her recently purchased machine. She strongly suggests installing WinEdt too. Here is her e-mail.

make sure you tell PC users to download an editor as well, it might seem obvious but im sure some folks might just try to download miktex and expect it to work.
the first time i installed (on my old PC laptop), i had to figure out how to reference the miktex installation in winedt...
this time, i installed miktex first (its own folder in program files) and then winedt and as soon as i started up winedt, everything worked just fine.

Mac: Download TeXShop from http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/. It's free too!

Follow the instructions; the installations are straightforward. If you don't know, LaTeX documents are pure text files, making them extremely portable. They can be formatted on any platform you choose. After installation, test drive your installation with the attached file. It should produce a simple document without any stopping because of errors.

The morning presentation will be for beginners. The afternoon is directed for those who came to the morning session and for those familiar with LaTeX but want to know more. In general, the topics will become increasingly advanced as the day progresses. Consequently, you may want to come mid-morning if you notice something interesting.

Don Johnson, Course instructor

• The LaTeX (actually TeX) environment and its history
• Running LaTeX
• Simple document formatting
  • paragraphs
  • sectioning
  • special characters
  • changing font size
  • table of contents, table of figures
  • bibliographies
  • two-column formatting
• Mathematics in LaTeX
  • displayed and inline equations
  • integrals, fractions, Greek symbols, super/sub-scripts
  • equation numbering
  • sizing delimiters (parentheses, brackets, etc.)
  • creating your own notation (i.e., "\signal{t}" means the symbol "x(t)")

• Figures in LaTeX
• Tables in LaTeX
• Packages
  • changing to Times Roman
  • tables longer than a page
  • bibliography formatting
  • caption control
  • enumerated environments
  • chemical equations
  • typesetting computer algorithms
• Advanced mathematics
  • accessing advanced mathematics notation
  • case statements
  • multi-line equations
  • theorem environments
  • defining your own relations and operators
• Not for the young
  • figures in wrapped text
  • modifying LaTeX definitions