L A T E X tips for the academic
Andrew Mertz, William Slough, Nancy Van Cleave · The Keep (Eastern Illinois University) · 2016
As academics, we produce a wide variety of documents including class handouts, electronic slides for presentations, assignment write-ups, laboratory and reference materials, quizzes and exams. These documents have diverse typesetting needs, including complex mathematical notation, screen shots, code listings, algorithms expressed in pseudocode, figures involving discrete structures such as graphs and trees, and graphics images from a variety of sources. As longtime users of LATEX, we are convinced that old school techniques can be superior to what some perceive to be more modern approaches. As a document mark-up language, it continues to be well suited to typesetting documents for computer science --- now and well into the future. In this paper, we provide a glimpse of some of its possibilities, give a brief overview of how to accomplish some common typesetting tasks, and provide pointers to more in-depth references.