The Department’s Staff Development Committee had planned for a workshop series on “Introduction to LaTeX”. The last part of the workshop was organized on 11th May 2017 at 10:00 am in Lab-1 which was lasted for 1 hour and 45 minutes. The objectives of the programme were to:
- Session Recap
- Making Presentations
- Creating Images with tikz
- Todo notes
- LaTeX Collaborating
The Staff Development Committee of the IT department planned a workshop series on “Introduction to LaTeX”, and Part-1 of the workshop was organized on 18 April, 2017 at 10:00 am in Lab-1. The workshop spanned for 1 hour and 45 minutes. The objective of the programme was to understand the fundamentals of LaTeX and implement the acquired techniques in preparing research articles, books, question papers and presentations which in turn would improve the skills of the faculties.
Mr. Brian presented the welcome note and initiated the workshop. Dr. Duhai AlShukaili, Lecturer-IT (IbriCT), conducted the workshop. He gratefully acknowledged the work of the authors cited while assuming complete responsibility for any mistake introduced in the adaptation. He divided his presentation into different steps such as;
Typeset text in LaTex. Use of lots of different commands. Handle errors when they arise. Typeset some beautiful mathematics. Use several different environments. Load packages.
Dr.Duhai explained the use of latex and the advantages it has over other document editors. He gave a practical experience about how LaTeX works with lots of examples. He also briefed most of the commands used in LaTeX with an already prepared handout for the users.
Dr. Duhai also focused on typesetting mathematics and the beauty of typing equations and symbols without any difficulty in alignment. He also helped the participants in handling errors while compiling the documents. Dr. Duhai made use of an online editor Overleaf to demonstrate the use of LaTeX effectively.
Dr. Duhai gave a summary of this first session of the workshop and an overview of the forthcoming sessions of this workshop series. The session was very useful and interactive. Twenty-four (24) faculty members of various departments participated in the workshop and benefitted from it.
Useful Links
Overleaf, https://www.overleaf.com/
LaTeX, https://www.latex-project.org/
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