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Instructors: Pascal Paschos, Senior Computational Specialist, Northwestern IT Research Computing Services and Alper Kinaci, Senior Computational Specialist, Northwestern IT Research Computing Services

Do you get tired of formatting your documents? LaTeX is a typesetting program where you write in a plain text environment. It includes features to create production/publication quality technical and scientific documents from the plain text content. LaTeX interpreter formats the spacing, equations, graphics, tables and many more throughout your documents with simple commands. This introductory workshop will cover basic formatting commands for the text, equations, tables and figures. Graphical user interfaces for personal and collaborative LaTeX writing such as LyX and Overleaf will also be introduced. Installation instructions will be sent by email to prepare for the workshop if you wish to follow along with your laptop.

Pizza will be provided.