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15551
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
L0
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| ECTS Credits |
1
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| Workload |
TP(18H)
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| Scientific area |
Informatics
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Entry requirements |
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Learning outcomes |
The objectives of this Course Unit are to: (i) introduce the typographic system LaTeX, presenting its main characteristics, advantages and disadvantages; (ii) describe the LaTeX functionalities that enable the structuring of a technical report; (iii) study commands used to manage report content, namely math expressions, symbols, figures, tables, and indexes; and (iv) explain and apply cross-references, bibliography, and acronyms.
This course aims to provide the student with the necessary skills to use the typographic system LaTeX to write high-quality reports and scientific papers. At the end of the course unit, the student should be able to: understand the structure of a LaTeX project; choose a correct LaTeX document type and prepare the environment for its writing; structure, format, and produce documents written with LaTeX composed of math expressions, symbols, figures, tables, and indexes; insert bibliographic references and manage bibliography using bib files; and manage acronyms.
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Syllabus |
1. Introduction to LaTeX Typographic System and Writing Environments
2. LaTeX Document Structure, Environments and Commands Syntax
3. Commands to Generate a Document Structure
4. Types and Sizes of Fonts and Lists
5. Figures and Tables
6. Acronyms, Bibliography, and Cross-references
7. Technical Report Structure and Formatting
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Main Bibliography |
Pedro R. M. Inácio, Tiago Roxo e Tiago M. C. Simões, Introdução a Conceitos Base de Engenharia Informática - Apontamentos de Apoio e Guias Laboratoriais de Laboratórios de Programação, UBI - Universidade da Beira Interior: Serviços Gráficos, September 2021, ISBN: 978-989-654-785-1. [Online.] Last Access: March 20, 2022. Available: https://www.di.ubi.pt/~inacio/icbei-ebook.php
Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl, “The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX,” 2008. [Online.] Last Access: March 20, 2022. Available: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
Overleaf, “Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes,” 2022. [Online.] Last Access: March 20, 2022. Available: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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