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 — events:individual_past_events:2013-09-17_latex_lecture [2013/09/16 14:08] (current) Line 1: Line 1: + /* If you have not already done so, please begin the heading below + with a date in YYYY-MM-DD format followed by a short description. + This is what will appear in the event listing and the event list + ​itself is sorted by this.   */ + + + ====== An introduction to LATEX ====== + + ==== Vassar College Department of Mathematics Announces a lecture/​demonstration ==== + + ==== John McCleary ==== + + Vassar College \\ + Tuesday, September 17, 2013 \\ + Rockefeller Hall 300 \\ + 7-8:30pm \\ + + + One of the most useful programming languages is TEX, constructed by + Donald Knuth, and developed by Leslie Lamport into LATEX, the standard + for mathematical typesetting over the last 25 years. If you want to + be able to typeset your mathematical work, or even to typeset any of + your assignments,​ LATEX can be very valuable. ​ + + I will give a lecture/​demonstration of elementary aspects of + the LATEX programming language. If you have installed a version of TEX on your laptop, bring it + along. On the MAC, install TEXshop. On machines running Microsoft operating systems, install MikTEX. Both of these versions + of TEX are freely available on the Web.