LaTeX

Markup Languages

1. Compare and contrast WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editing and markup text editing.

LaTeX Basics

1. Identify the LaTeX syntax for commands.
2. Identify the LaTeX syntax for comments.
3. Create a minimal LaTeX document using LaTeX commands.
4. Identify the file extension for a TeX document.

Overleaf

1. Use Overleaf to write and typeset LaTeX documents.

Typesetting Text

1. Use backticks and apostrophes correctly so they typeset to standard left- and right-quotations.
2. Identify special characters that must be entered with a preceding \ in LaTeX.

Typesetting Mathematics

1. Use the $ $ syntax to typeset inline mathematics.
2. Use the $$ $$ syntax to typeset displayed mathematics.
3. Use _ and ^ to typeset subscripts and superscripts.
4. Use {} to group items into a sub- or super-script.
5. Recognize the syntax for typesetting lower- and upper-case Greek letters.
6. Recognize the syntax to begin and end a LaTeX environment.
7. Use the equation environment to typeset a numbered equation.
8. Use the align environment from the amsmath package and the & and \\ operators to create aligned mathematics.
9. Recognize that LaTeX has commands to typset many of the common mathematical operators such as \(\min\), \(\max\), \(\sum\), \(\int\), etc.
10. Avoid typesetting operators as \(min\), \(max\), etc.

Itemized and Enumerates Lists

1. Create itemized and enumerated lists using the itemize and enumerate environments.

Packages

1. Import a package into a LaTeX document.