An Introduction to LaTeX

Meet LaTeX, the typesetting program widely used by linguists, mathematicians and other scientists for professional publishing purposes. LaTeX produces beautiful documents (trees, examples, math included), and streamlines the writing process very efficiently. But making the effort to learn LaTeX on one's own can seem daunting, and there is a curve to the learning process.

 

In this session, we will start at the beginning, learning to write linguistics academic papers using LaTeX. No prior exposure to LaTeX will be assumed. In preparation for the session, please do the following: 

 

• Go to Overleaf.com and sign up for an account (free). 
• Click on "New Project" (> "Blank Project") and put in the following code. (We will go through what each part of the code means and does). 
• Hit the green "Recompile" button. 
• Remember to bring the device to class where you do this exercise so you can continue to work on the document and build on it as we discuss and learn more.

Presenter: Diti Bhadra is a formal semanticist with interfacing interests in pragmatics, syntax, typology, and cognitive science. She has worked on a variety of topics including modality, evidentiality, questions, discourse particles, embedding and complementation, disjunction, negative polarity items. She works primarily on South Asian languages and does cross-familial and cross-linguistic fieldwork (funded by the NSF) across the region.

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