Introduction to L^ATEX and Gnuplot
Syllabus

Fall 2004

Instructors: Casey Dreier and Wendy Everett
Email: Casey.Dreier@oberlin.edu, Wendeline.Everett@oberlin.edu
Phone: 775-1410, 774-3357
Class Page: http://occs.oberlin.edu/~latexco

Class Dynamic: Class will begin each week with any questions about the previous week's material, followed by a lecture from the instructor. For the remainder of class, students will begin using the new material with the instructor on hand to answer questions. Students are required to spend an additional hour each week outside of class practicing L^ATEX skills on documents for other classes or (if no such documents exist) on examples provided by the instructor.

Evaluation: Attendance is expected. Evaluation will be based on weekly short formating projects and one final project. Students will present their final projects to the class, explaining the formatting techniques employed.

Table 1: Schedule of topics.

Week	Lesson
1	The Unix Environment \| L^ATEX Basics
2	Document Structure
3	The Math Environment
4	Floats: figures and tables
5	References and Cross References
6	Gnuplot Basics and Scripting
7	Gnuplot -- Best Fit Curve
8	Xfig
9	Indexing
10	L^ATEX Goodies
11	Using new L^ATEX Styles
12	Project Presentations