Some tips for scribing lecture notes :
- The goal should be to improve upon my lecture by explaining things
even better than you remember me explaining them! Any issues that
came up in class should be explained, but not necessarily at length
(feel free to discuss with me in order to decide how much to go into
these).
- No need to include class announcements.
- Do include a list of
topics to be covered in the lecture (make a list of what was really covered,
which is not necessarily what I wrote on the board at the beginning of
class).
- If this is your first time with latex -- there are plenty
of tex files on the course website and
on the course websites from previous versions of the Sublinear time
computation courses that I have taught (see links from
this
website)
that you can use
as a starting point for your own latex file.
- Use headers such as \section, \subsection, \subsubsection
to organize the topics in the lecture. \paragraph is also
useful.
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When using the definition environment, make sure to emphasize
the term being defined. You can use {\em term being defined}
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Numbers in the range 1-9 should be written out when not being
used in a mathematical statement. For example: "Pick two numbers"
rather than Pick 2 numbers".
This one is tricky, because it is common to write about a proper 2-coloring --
I'm not sure I can explain why one seems really bad and the other is ok.
Just do your best and we'll work it out.
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Variable names should be put inside the equation format even when
being used in an English sentence -- i.e., "Pick $x$ so that ..."
in order to keep a uniform font.
- latex has an issue with quotations. In order to get them
to look right, you need to use two single left quotes when starting a
quote -- for example: ``the quote" Although it looks weird
in the .tex file, this is how to get it to come out right in the
pdf file. (also did an example in the example tex file).
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Many of my abbreviations on the board should be written out.
I try to write less to keep the flow of the lecture moving, but
luckily you don't have that constraint.
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Run spellcheck!