Creating High-Quality Documents with LaTeX

Want more control over how your documents look and function? LaTeX is an open-source typesetting system used to create clean, consistent, and professional documents. It’s especially helpful for working with complex formatting, citations, or mathematical content, and it's a powerful tool for writing reports, articles, and long-form texts in any discipline.

In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll learn the building blocks of LaTeX, including how to format text, structure a document, and write equations. You’ll also walk through the process of creating your first LaTeX document from scratch.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify the basic structure and purpose of LaTeX documents
• Format text and write mathematical equations using LaTeX commands
• Create and compile a basic LaTeX document

This session is ideal for students, researchers, and writers in any field who want to explore LaTeX as a powerful alternative to traditional word processors—no prior experience required.

Details: Any preparatory work for the session can be found on its information page. This virtual workshop will be recorded and shared on the same page, and discoverable via the Sherman Centre's Online Learning Catalogue.

Facilitator Bio: 

John Fink is the Digital Scholarship Librarian in the Sherman Centre.