What is LaTeX?
LaTeX, which is pronounced «Lay-tech», is a powerful mark-up language for typesetting documents. LaTeX is most useful for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents containing mathematical equations or programming code.
At University, LaTeX is mainly used by students studying STEM subjects. It requires students to learn the LaTeX markup language to produce documents in a pdf format.
Help and Support
There are a variety of desktop and online LaTeX editors, including TeXMaker, TeXStudio, ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. If you are writing your dissertation, you can utilize the pre-built University of Aberdeen Thesis Template on Overleaf to automatically format your BSc, MSc, MPhil, or PhD documents. (Overleaf video tutorials featured on this page)
The University of Aberdeen also runs LaTeX workshops for PGR and PGT, and the workshop material (handouts and examples) can be downloaded as a ZIP in the Guides section.
Further information about the Toolkit service can be found on our IT Services web pages.