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Module 3: LaTeX
===============

Module Objectives
-----------------

After completing this module, a participant will be successfully able to:

- Produce professional documents in LaTeX.  RBT Ap
- Typeset Mathematical equations.           RBT Ap
- Include figures, tables and code samples. RBT Ap
- Add References and write BibTeX files.    RBT Ap

Suggested Reading
-----------------

1. *LaTeX Wikibook*

2. *The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e* by Tobias Oetikar et. al. 


Session Level Split-up
----------------------

+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| Session | Topic  			    | Duration|
+=========+=================================+=========+
| 1	  | Introduction, TeX & LaTeX       | 10 min  |
|         | WYSIWG vs. WYSIWM               |         |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | LaTeX source, Hello World       | 10 min  |
|         | Compiling                       |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 2	  | General Document Structure      | 15 min  |
|         |                                 |         |
|	  | ``\documentclass``,             |         |
|	  | Document environment,           |	      |
|         | Preamble,                       |         |
|         | Packages,                       |         |
|         | Top Matter,                     |         |
|         | Abstract,                       |         |
|         | Sectioning Commands,            |         |
|         | Appendices,                     |         |
|         | ToC, Bibliography,              |         |
|         | Including files                 |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 3	  | Line & Page Breaks,             |  5 min  |
|         | Symbols & Special Characters,   |         |
|	  | Emphasized words                |         |
|	  |                                 |	      |
|         | Cross References,               |  5 min  |
|         | Footnotes,                      |         |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Enumerate, Itemize, Description |  5 min  |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Flushleft, Flushright, Center   |  5 min  |
|         | Quote, Quotation and Verse,     |         |
|         | Abstract,                       |         |
|         | Verbatim                        |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
|         | Buffer time                     |  5 min  |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 4	  | ``\tabular`` environment,       | 15 min  |
|         | Importing Graphics, Floats      |         |
|	  |                                 |	      |
|         | Captions, List of Figures,      |  5 min  |
|         | List of Tables                  |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 5	  | ``\usepackage{amsmath}``,       |  5 min  |
|         | Single Equations                |         |
|         |                                 |         |
|         | Building blocks of an equation, | 15 min  |
|         | Multiple Equations, Arrays and  |         |
|	  | Matrices                        |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
| 6	  | ``\thebibliography``            | 15 min  |
|         | environment, BibTeX             |         |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+
|         | Buffer time                     |  5 min  |
+---------+---------------------------------+---------+