latex-tutorial

A brief $\LaTeX$ tutorial made for the University of Manitoba Space Applications and Technology Society (UMSATS).

• Description
• Getting Started

Description

The tutorial consists of a 30 minute lecture and a fill-in-the-blank handout for students to complete.

The lecture covers the fundamentals needed to start using LaTeX, such as

• What LaTeX is.
• What Overleaf is.
• How a basic LaTeX document is organized (preamble, title, content).
• What the different preamble commands do (\documentclass, \usepackage, title and table of content commands).
• How to write text and lists.
• How to write math.
• How to add figures and tables.
• How to link different parts of the document with \label and the hyperref package.

In the handout, the students are given a chance to try these basic commands and ask questions as they go.

Getting Started

1. Clone or download this entire GitHub repository to your computer. The easiest way to do this is do click on the green <> Code ▼ dropdown-list button and select the download ZIP option.

2. Go to Overleaf.
   1. Log in or create an account.
   2. From the New Project dropdown, select Upload project.
   3. Upload the zip file. (Or, if your browser auto-unzipped the github repository to a folder, click Blank Project and upload the entire folder to that blank project).

3. In the now opened overleaf project, you should have a file explorer on the left-hand side with the files and folders shown below. To compile a tex file, click on one of the main.tex files and hit recompile or press <ctrl+enter>.

.
├── README.md
├── github.png
├── handout
│   ├── dog.jpg
│   └── main.tex  <--
├── handout-solution
│   ├── dog.jpg
│   └── main.tex  <--
├── lecture-notes
│   ├── dog.jpg
│   └── main.tex  <--
└── overleaf.png

4. Compile the main.tex in the lecture-notes directory. Read the compiled pdf and the source-code of that main.tex.
5. Compile the main.tex in the handout directory. Read the compiled pdf and fill-out the source-code of that main.tex as you go.
6. Compare your completed main.tex in the handout directory to the solution main.tex in the handout-solution directory.