[Pols-l] April 14, 1PM: CRMDA LaTeX Workshop

[Paul Johnson]

Dear POLS students

Several years ago, I created the guide document "How to Cheat on your 
LaTeX Homework: A Beginner's Guide to LyX and LaTeX" in large part 
because the POLS students had trouble using LaTeX to prepare papers.  In 
case you did not year yet, we'll be reviewing that, along with the 
thesis/dissertation template, on Saturday in Watson Library Rm 455, 
April 14, 2018, from 1-4PM. We have several seats available and you can 
email Auburn Packer <crmda at ku.edu> to tell her that you might like to 
attend.

If you are signed already, a message like this will be sent to you 
separately.

The workshop is described here:

https://crmda.ku.edu/latex-20180414

Please bring a laptop computer with you. Before you come, make sure you 
have a working LaTeX distribution installed in your computer. Our LaTeX 
support page

https://crmda.ku.edu/latex

has some advice about that. Namely, install the full TeXLive 
distribution for you operating system (On Mac, its called MacTex). Don't 
fiddle with partial installs that try to save space.

If you have trouble installing LaTeX or making it work, please visit the 
CRMDA on the day before the workshop, at 4PM.  We'll take a look at your 
computer. If your computer is broken on Saturday, we have 3 loaner 
laptops that work. On a first-come-first-serve basis, these will be 
available.

In case you are eager to get started, the first thing we suggest is to 
review our Webcast for CRMDA Guide 36: LaTeX: The Bare Minimum 
(https://crmda.ku.edu/guide-36-LaTeX_Overview). That gives a solid 
overview and key terms.

On Saturday, our time is split between two purposes

1. How to Cheat on your LaTeX Homework: A Beginner's Guide to LyX and 
LaTeX (https://crmda.ku.edu/guide-37-LyX_for_LaTeX_Homework)

2. The new KU thesis/dissertation template 
(https://crmda.ku.edu/43.ku_thesis)

In preparation for that (very exciting) event, we uploaded a revised 
version of the template.  The significant change
this year is that authors can insert their prior credentials on page 1.

The thesis preparation guide, "Please Read the Abstract", displays the 
latest and greatest. It is now revised to be (even) more informative! 
The new zip file is available as well at the address on the guide page.


pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson			University of Kansas	     	
Professor			Director, Center for Research
Political Science		Methods & Data Analysis (CRMDA)
http://pj.freefaculty.org	http://crmda.ku.edu
email: pauljohn at ku.edu
Address: CRMDA
	 Watson Library, Suite 470
	 1425 Jayhawk Blvd.	
    	 Lawrence, Kansas
  	 66045-7594
   	 Ph: (785) 864-8215