LaTeX course

This website contains exercises for learning LaTeX. LaTeX Wikibooks is the standard reference used in this course.

Week 1

1. Installing LaTeX: TeX Live or MacTeX.
2. Hello world!: Typesetting your first document in TeXworks.
3. Structure: Structure of a LaTeX file, document classes, packages, topmatter, groups, commands and environments.
4. Basics: LaTeX fundamentals
5. Writing mathematical texts: Math environment, characters, powers and indices, operators, fractions, roots, dots, matrices, brackets, horizontal whitespace, layout, list of symbols.
6. Writing texts: Special characters and accents, paragraphs, non-breaking space, emphasis, lists, verbatim, url and quoting.
7. Errors and warnings: Error fixing 101.

8. Writing guide (aimed at writing in Dutch): Nederlandse stijlregels voor wiskunde en LaTeX.
9. Rewriting poor work: Exercise in editing
10. Advanced mathematics: Gather, align, matrices, text in mathematical expressions, cases, multiline subscripts, references.

11. Document class uvamath: The uvamath document class.
12. Advanced document structure: Writing an article. Chapters, sections, paragraphs, theorems, figures, tables, floats, references, bibliography.

This website is part of the course "Programmeren en Experimenteren" taught at the University of Amsterdam.

2023/12/19: Updated by Ellen den Ouden. Rearranged some sections, translated the one bit that was still in Dutch, removed some now redundant things.
2021/05/23: Added sections BibTex, TikZ, and Posters, by Ellen den Ouden.
2020/09/10: Updated some sections, added sections Bibliography and citations in LaTeX and Proper citations in the text, by Nicos Starreveld.
2018/12/19: Removed some sections, fixed some technical issues, by Raymond van Venetie.
2018/01/10: Updated by Chris Zaal. Reordering of the sections, new section "Basics".
2017/01/11: It was translated to English, edited and updated by Jolien Oomens.
2016/01/01: The first version was created by Jeroen Zuiddam.