Speaker: Nathan Amanquah

Time: 2:30 – 4:00

Date: Wednesday, 02 March 2011

Venue: Lecture Hall 4 (Building 3)

Talk Abstract:

LaTeX (pronounced lay tech) is a high-quality

typesetting system. It is very well suited for the production of

technical or complex documents. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the

publication of scientific documents. Unlike MS Word which is just a

word processing system available on may computers, Latex excels at

book/document layout. It is a document markup language and document

preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Fonts(typefaces),

hyphenation, and letter spacing look like what an professional system

offers. It offers automation for a number of features including page

and figure numbering, bibliography, cross referencing. Postgraduate

work and publications are typically accepted in Latex format.

LaTeX is most widely used by mathematicians, scientists, engineers,

philosophers, lawyers, linguists, economists, researchers, and other

scholars in academia. It runs on both Windows and Linux. It is surely

a must learn for any person in academia.