LaTeX is an accessible computer language for the creation of high-quality scientific and technical documents. In addition to structuring your writing in the usual paragraphs and sections, its features include mathematical equation typesetting (which can also be embedded in Moodle pages), bibliographies, and automatic numbering of sections, equations, references, tables, and figures. LaTeX is built upon a lower-level typesetting language called TeX, and is open-source and free to use.
LaTeX is available in a number of implementations that you can install on your own computer, and is most easily composed using a dedicated editor and interpreter. For this course, however, we will be using the cloud version of LaTeX provided by Overleaf, which more easily allows for collaborative work.
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