Mini-Course Description:
M195: Authoring in Mathematica

Course Objective
This course introduces and explores the many tools available for creating and managing technical documents in Mathematica.

Presenter
The course is presented by a Wolfram Research senior developer or a Wolfram Education Group certified instructor.

Target Audience
This course is intended for anyone who wishes to work with Mathematica to create high-quality electronic and/or printed technical documents.

Delivery Type
This mini-course consists of three sections: M195A, M195B, and M195C. Each section is three to four hours long. M195A introduces attendees to technical document writing in Mathematica. M195B is at an intermediate level and is appropriate for those who wish to use Mathematica to develop projects such as courseware, applications, or books. M195C is at an advanced level and is for those wishing to understand the underlying front-end structure so as to effectively program the user interface. Additional online training information is available.

Syllabus

M195A: Authoring: Introduction to Technical Document Writing

• Palettes: using and creating
• Formatting mathematical expressions: input, output, and inline cells
• Cells and notebooks: styles, options, and programming the user interface
• Hyperlinks: links to web pages, notebooks, Mathematica documentation
• Cell tags, automatic numbering, and cross referencing
• Style sheets: using, editing, and creating
• Importing and exporting: importing images, exporting notebooks, notebooks vs. packages

M195B: Authoring: Building and Managing Projects

• Documentation: Help Browser, indexing
• Slide show presentations: creating, editing, modifying
• AuthorTools: projects, indexing, table of contents, referencing, pagination, printing options
• Publicon: creating documents, typesetting, notes, references, bibliographies, exporting notebooks

M195C: Authoring: Advanced Topics

• Structure of notebooks and cells
• Cells: constructing, writing, and cell data types
• Box structures: box data, grid boxes, fraction boxes, formatted tables, etc.
• Printing options
• HTML/XML/MathML/TeX/LaTeX

Course Materials
Each attendee will be provided with Mathematica course notebooks and access to the current version of Mathematica. The course notebooks require Mathematica or Mathematica Player. For attendees participating in classroom-based sessions, course materials are distributed in print and on CD-ROM, and are yours to keep; a computer running Mathematica is available for your use during class. For attendees participating in online classes, a download of the course materials is provided; a temporary Mathematica training license is provided upon request.

Prerequisites
Course attendees are expected to have basic familiarity with Mathematica approximately equivalent to that provided by "M101: A First Course in Mathematica." Experience with computer programming at the level of an introductory course in any computer programming language is also helpful.

To sign up for this course, see the training calendar and registration page.