Outline Suggestions for LaTeX Workshop, May 2017

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Outline Suggestions for LaTeX Workshop, May 2017

• Say hi to everyone, hand out example document + beamer document
• Suggest that people start looking that the examples.
• Have people sit close to the board (to facilitate discussion).
• Introduce ourselves. Mention that this is the first intermediate workshop we host, and that advice and feedback during and after the event is most appreciated.
• Open up sharelatex, and a few resources such as google, detexify and the codecogs editor (maybe not the github repo though, because that might be distracting?).
• If a good chance to showcase one of these resources comes up under the workshop, we should take it.
• have people open a blank document.
• Quickly add the most general and essential packages (the others can wait until we need them, or maybe be ignored at all if they are only there for aesttic reasons)
• Based on people's requests go through some of the examples from Section 1.
  • Thm 1.1 is a good for revision of math mode (not all attendees might know about the '[ ]' tags). It might be a good idea to start with writing both the roots using \pm, and then, one everyone gets that to work, we can split it up and add the "and".
  • Also show how we can use \textbf{Theorem 1.1} and \textit{Proof.}. Mention that we can demonstrate the amsthm package later during the workshop.
  • The rest of section 1.1 is really useful stuff. It might be a good idea to start simple with a simplified example or a naive solutionn, and then add more complexity as we see fit.
  • There might be good occasisions somehwere here to mention that macros can simplify stuff like \mathrm{col} or \mathbb{R}.
  • Emphasise the similarties (that & and // comes up a lot).
  • The stuff in Section 1.2 is not super useful and can be skipped unless people have particular requests.
    • Some things might need additional packages that I don't think we should mention from the get-go.
• This might be a good place to ask what people want to do next. Make a tentative plan together. Suggestions (in what would be a sort of natural order):
  • The tables (Section 2) is not an essential section but ties into the & and // stuff really well.
  • The amsthm package
  • Macros (reuse the examples from section 1 as examples and add the GL stuff from chapter 6).
  • Lables and cross-references.
  • References also be a nice occasion for mentioning a bit more about how to include figures, maybe even subfigures. Someone mentioned plots when the signed up, so perhaps we can quickly go over to geogebra, genereate a simple plot and include it, label it and reference it.
  • Source code (no one seems really excited about that in the sign-up stats though, but maybe/hopefully they change their mind when they see minted in action! :D)
  • Beamer (might be a good idea to copy and paste a few theorems that we made in the first part of the workshop).
  • Demonstrate animatation through a compiled version of our Beamer document.
  • Create a blank sharelatex doc.
  • Add frames with blocks and lists.
  • Then add animations.
  • TikZ. A lot of people were interested in this. Might be a good idea to warn them that this is pretty tricky though! But then again, the results can get beutiful! Mention that Inkscape and PS are nice alternatives.
• Continue going. Have at least one proper break (say 5-10 min's).
• Before the end, show people the github repo, mention all the awesome reseources on ShareLaTeX and that they are welcome to ask questions in the FB group.
• Mention evaluation form.