ASUTOSH COLLEGE – University of Calcutta (C.U.)

LaTeX

Introduction

Since inception, we are accustomed to documents in the form of articles, books, letters etc in various form, say, a newspaper Editorial or a book depicting a collection of short stories. Traditional document processors, like MS-Word in Windows or LibreOffice in Linux operating system, were widely used for preparing non-portable short documents, albeit, the required time and effort in preparing well-referenced, hyperlinked volumetric documents with cross-platform applicability are huge, particularly in the field of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics). LaTeX solves this problem using a state-of-the-art document preparation methodology. In this course, we will introduce the basics of scientific writing using LaTeX.

Course :

(1Lecture = 2Hr 30Min; Number of Lectures = 40; Time = 40X2.5 = 100Hours)

a) Introduction to LaTeX as scientific writing, preparation and compilation of an article in LaTeX (softwares to install: TeXStudio in Linux/Windows).
(2 Lectures = 5Hrs ;Credit 5)

b) Introducing document classes e.g. article, book, thesis, CV, letter, homework assignment, calendar, poster, presentation etc.
(12 Lectures = 30Hrs ; Credit 30)

c) Packages, preamble and body of LaTeX using titles, abstract, introduction, chapters, sections and subsections, paragraph &verbatim.
(10 Lectures = 25Hrs ; Credit 25)

d) Figures, tables, references and bibliography, hyperlinked citations & points.
(6 Lectures = 15Hrs ; Credit 15)

e) Manipulating fonts and special characters, expressing mathematical equations and symbols.
(10 Lectures = 25Hrs ; Credit 25)

Instructors:

Prof. Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee & Prof. Parikshit Dutta, Department of Physics, Asutosh College, Kolkata.

Benefits:

1. To learn in preparing a scientific article, book or a thesis, a professional CV for academia or industry, writing an official letter, preparing a homework assignment, making a calendar, demonstrating a poster in a conference or presenting your work to your peers for career advancement.

2. To get motivated in learning regional form of LaTeX, e.g. BangTeX in Bengali, as suits your need. E.g. the softcopy of “Gitabitan” (https://www.iopb.res.in/~somen/Gb_misc/) were prepared in BangTeX by Prof. S.M. Bhattacharjee, HoD Physics, Ashoka University nearly two decades ago.

3. https://towardsdatascience.com/why-should-you-learn-latex-or-at-least-give-it-a-try-8d0f3218b8e

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