# How to Write your Next Thesis in LaTeX #

*An International Webinar between Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia, Jade University of Applied Science and Óbuda University*

## Repository organization
The repository is organized in the next way. The `1_basics` folder includes information (presentations or guides), examples source code, and any other useful information that the attendant can review during or after the webinar.

## Webinar Contents ##
Here you can find the highlights of each day lecture, to avoid repetitive points during the webinar.
### Day 1: Introduction (Marx)
  * What is LaTeX?
  * How LaTeX works?
  * Exploring Overleaf (Windows, organization, files)
  * Compiling a basic document 
  * Using basic commands and definitions 
  * document options and geometry
  * Defining new vars, paragraph spaces, tabulation space, and text sizes
  * A dummy text definition command


#### Geometry and Lengths
##### Units 

| Abbreviation	| Value |
|pt|	a point is approximately 1/72.27 inch, that means about 0.0138 inch or 0.3515 mm (exactly point is defined as 1/864 of American printer’s foot that is 249/250 of English foot)|
mm	a millimeter
cm	a centimeter
in	inch
ex	roughly the height of an 'x' (lowercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)
em	roughly the width of an 'M' (uppercase) in the current font (it depends on the font used)
mu	math unit equal to 1/18 em, where em is taken from the math symbols family


### Day 2: Document Classes and Sectional Units ###
### Day 3: Equations, Tables and Figures (Marx) ###
### Day 4: Plots with PGFPlots package(Marx) ###
  * Making plots from equation 
  * Plotting data from a simple experiment 
  * Title, labels, and ticks configuration
  * Multi-trace plots and its configuration
  * Bar and scatter plots
  * Reading data from a `CSV` files
### Day 5: References with Bibtex ###