LaTex

LaTeX (pronounced “Lah-tech”) is a typesetting system that’s used to produce beautifully formatted documents. It is a file format that publishers, academic journals and conferences, grant funders, and academic settings sometimes request. Using LaTeX, authors write content in plain text documents (i.e., not Microsoft Word) but include special commands that are recognized by the typesetting system and used to generate the final formatted document. In other words, LaTeX takes care of the formatting and lets the writer focus on content. In this demonstration, Richard will provide a brief background on LaTeX and Overleaf (an application designed to make LaTeX authoring more ...