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TOPIC: LaTeX FOR ACADEMIC WRITINGS: JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, BOOKS AND SLIDES PREPARATION

LaTeX WORKSHOP

TOPIC: LaTeX FOR ACADEMIC WRITINGS: JOURNAL ARTICLES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, BOOKS AND SLIDES PREPARATION

In pursuance of the staff development and research policy of the University, we bring to the knowledge of the University community a free workshop session on LaTeX. Details concerning the workshop and the package arehighlighted below:

PREAMBLE:

LaTeX is a useful tool for literal writings - mathematical and non-mathematical. Most journals and publishers provide templates in LaTex for article/book preparations. There are many reasons why LaTex is preferable to other word processing packages as enumerated below.

  • Beautifully Typeset Output.
    LaTeX is designed by mathematicians for producing beautifully typeset mathematics. Not only are the equations and mathematical symbols beautifully rendered, but LaTeX also does an exceptional job at handling visual components such as fonts, spacing, and line breaks. Non-scientific writings are also excellently handled.
  • Structured Files.
    LaTeX has the author specify various elements of the document, such as title, authors, chapter and section headings, environments for theorems and proofs, appendices, and the bibliography. This has a number of advantages. For one, it forces the author to organize the document in a logical way, which often has the beneficial side effect of producing exposition that is more organized, clearer, and coherent. Additionally, it allows the author to focus on content rather than layout during the writing process. In LaTeX, the author produces the words in a text editor, while specifying the document's structure. This allows the author to focus on what they want to say and how they want to say it while they are writing. When the document is compiled, LaTeX handles the typesetting. For particular types of documents (e.g., a scientific or non-scientific paper, thesis, or book), there are usually default LaTeX styles as well as several professionally designed templates that are freely available. Moreover, if you use one style and later decide to change the layout (for instance, at a publisher's request), this is often as easy as cutting and pasting your content into a different template.
  • Management of Internal References.
    LaTeX elegantly handles numbering and internal (label) referencing within a document.
  • Management of Citations.
    As with internal references, LaTeX handles citations elegantly. If you use BibTeX – for bibliography, which is compatible with most reference management software, it is also easy to change bibliographic styles to suit any journal.
  • Customizable.
    One can easily create macros for use within a particular document. Moreover, LaTeX has a coherent package system that makes it relatively easy for users to write extension packages to provide additional features. Since LaTeX is so popular, there are a very large number of such extension packages already freely available online. This means that you will often be able to achieve special effects by finding and using a package already in existence, instead of having to create it yourself. The automata below was designed with LaTeX.
  • User-Friendly.
    Despite an initially steep learning curve, a novice can very quickly get to the point where they are comfortable producing their own documents and can look up answers to many of their questions online. Most LaTeX programs have a very user-friendly interface. Moreover, since LaTeX has existed for so long, there is a great deal of good documentation.
  • Commonly Used.
    LaTeX is hands down the document format most commonly used among mathematicians at the present time. This means it is easy to share documents with others and to collaborate with co-authors.
  • Easily Converted Files.
    LaTeX files contain markup language that enables them to be readily converted to other outputs (e.g., PDF or HTML), allowing you to change or share your document more easily than if it was in another format.LaTeX generates PDF as output.

VENUE: E-Library Hall, WORLD BANK CENTRE

DATE: November 21, 2018

TIME: 9am

ORGANISER: THE OFFICE OF THE DVC – ACADEMIC, UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT

FACILITATOR: DR B. B. BARIDAM

Workshop Cost:

  1. Registration Free.
  2. LaTeX Software (MikTex and TexStudio)Cost: Free.
  3. An optional amount of Six Thousand Five Hundred Naira (N6,500.00) only will be chargedto cover lunch, workshop materials and Certificate of Participation to be presented by the DVC – Academics.

Follow thislink to register.

Registration ends on November 14, 2018 – a week before the commencement of the Workshop.

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