Creating Professional Scientific Documents with LaTeX - Prüfungsnummer 9958405

LaTeX is a typesetting system commonly used to produce professional scientific documents and presentations. LaTeX allows you to focus on creating content while the system takes care of layout and formatting.

Course contents:

Basic Concepts of LaTeX
Development environments for LaTeX
Basic elements
Document structure
Page layout
Text formatting: Lists, footnotes, margin notes, tables, formulas
Usage of counters and lengths
Definition of custom commands and environments
Inclusion of graphics, images, and source code
Creation of presentations

After completing this course, you will be able to use LaTeX to produce professional-quality scientific documents such as theses, research papers and presentations. You will be able to manage document structure, format text, include graphics and customize your documents.

The course is taught in English and online via Zoom. It is taught as an "inverted classroom", which means that the course material can be studied independently based on weekly instructions and exercises. The attendance time is reserved for answering questions and discussing solutions to exercises.

Important information:

You need a computer capable of running a LaTeX environment (Windows, MacOS, Linux) for completing the weekly exercises.
The final exam is written on the Schweinfurt campus Ignaz-Schön-Str. The exam may contain multiple choice questions. Allowed aids are communicated at the begin of the semester.
You must attend the online first session to maintain your registration in the course. Attendance in the other session is recommended but not mandatory.

Dozent: Prof. Dr. Martin Storath
Stand: 22.09.2025