This Thursday in the on-going Humanities Computing Lunch Series, Professor Ronald B. Inden, Emeritus, History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, will be presenting a digital text created using LaTeX, a document mark up and type-setting language. While TeX and LaTeX has long enjoyed dominance in the Physical and Social Sciences as the preferred method of writing and presenting research, it has a relatively light footprint in the Humanities. That, however, is changing as more scholars in the Humanities are focusing on Open Source alternatives to dominant word processing programs or desiring better implementation of non-Western languages and characters in their documents. LaTeX is a key solution to both of these issues.
Prof. Inden will present Vishnu’s Will, created using LaTeX. He will discuss some of the choices and decisions that informed and his usage of LaTex to create and present his research. After his presentation, we hope to hear from many of the other users of LaTex on campus – and discuss some of the resources Humanities Computing can help provide to spearhead the growth of LaTex in the Humanities. Just recently, we have added LaTex to the Humanities Wiki. Please visit the wiki page for more links and information about LaTeX.
This event is open to all staff, faculty and graduate students. Please circulate.
Where: Rosenwald 405
When: 12 – 1:30
RSVP: manan@uchicago.edu
