LaTeX - Advanced

Target group
Students of all departments who already know the LaTeX basics (e.g. from the LaTeX – Basics seminar) and are interested in learning how to create presentations and high quality visualizations with LaTeX.

Content

• The “beamer” class in LaTeX
• Different themes of the beamer class
• Creating basic animations within LaTeX presentations
• Creating Visualizations with the TikZ and PGFplots packages for LaTeX
• Using external data to create visualizations
• Combining TikZ and the beamer class

 
Description
LaTeX is the de facto standard in scientific writing. Participants will learn how to use LaTeX for creating presentations, as an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint. We will learn about the different styles of the LaTeX beamer class and how to create basic animations within a presentation. Furthermore, we look into the LaTeX packages TikZ ("TikZ ist kein Zeichenprogramm”) and PGFplots, which are used within LaTeX to create qualitatively high visualizations. Finally, we will integrate TikZ figures into a beamer presentation.