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Course description
Choosing the right tool for the right task can be tricky, especially when we’re already familiar with a specific tool for a specific task. This is very much the case for writing and publishing papers. Many researchers tend to use Microsoft Word. This can lead to a range of issues like compatibility with other programs or images or sections of text repositioning themselves without warning. Tools which allow you more control over a text, like LaTeX, are available. These offer a wide range of benefits, particularly for those submitting contributions to different journals with different requirements.
LaTeX excels at
- compiling bibliographies and outputting them according to different journal guidelines
- changing the document style (font/margins/spacing)
- automated numbering and linking of cross-references to tables/images/chapters
- creating several different files out of the same basic document
LaTeX Light is meant for everyone looking for alternatives to Microsoft Word, whether you are student or an established academic. This includes anyone who has spent hours adapting the bibliography to a different journal’s style or tried to stop the illustrations from messing up the formatting of the text. In six hours, this introductory course teaches up to 15 attendants how to write a structured text of any length – whether 5-page journal article or 15-chapter book – using LyX and compile it with LaTeX.
Target audience
Students and researchers at any level of their education/career in all fields
Learning outcomes
- The basic principles of “what you get is what you see” versus “what you get is what you want”
- The LyX interface
- Basic structuring in a LyX document (chapters, sections and subsections)
- Including images and tables in your document
- Bibliographies and cross-referencing
- Outputting different versions of the same document
Prerequisites
- beginner level
- advanced level welcome for refresher
Required materials
- laptop with MiKTeX or TeX Live installed (downloadable via UiO’s software center, https://miktex.org/ or https://tug.org/texlive/)
- recent installation of LyX (downloadable via UiO’s software center or https://www.lyx.org/Download)
Lunch
- There will be a complementary buffet-lunch at 12:00-13:00 from the Sverdrups spiseri (Georg Sverdrups Hus, 2nd floor).
- After you get your lunch, join us at Store møterom where we have reserved seats for #DSDays2027 participants.
Number of participants
15
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this course, or anything else about the DSDays 2027 event, please contact us per email: digitalscholarship@ub.uio.no