Challenges

2.1 Sharing is caring

• What’s your favourite dish? Create an Overleaf project and set your chosen dish as the \title{ }.

• Share a link to your project in the chat.

Hint: If you're having trouble navigating Overleaf, please refer to our visual cheat sheet: Overleaf layout diagram.

Want a reminder on how to share your LaTeX project on Overleaf? Watch our short video to learn how: https://youtu.be/VnBf68Rho2w.

2.2 Lists

• Create a(n unordered) shopping list of items you would like to buy to make your chosen dish.

• Create a list of drinks to pair with your dish. Use the enumerate environment to order the drinks on your list from best to worst.

Bonus challenges:

• Add a nested list to one of your lists (how many levels deep can you go?)

• Change the symbol of one of the items in your unordered list to an asterisk (*).

2.3 Table of tables

• Recreate this table:

Hint: Copy the data from below and paste it into http://www.tablesgenerator.com

Ikea table	Shape	Number of seats	Cost (dollars)
Sandsberg	Rectangular	4	69
Docksta	Round	4	279
Vangsta	Rectangular	6 when extended to 1800mm (otherwise 4 at base length of 1200mm)	169
Melltorp	Square	2	69

Bonus challenges:

• Figure out how you can set the width of your table's columns (you may need to Google this one!) --- refer to the hints below if you need help.

• In your document, create a 3x3 bingo table for things that can happen on video calls.

Bingo extension challenge (optional)

Example bingo table

Hint 1

Hint 2

Solution

Bonus challenge:

• Create a 'free space' and shade this cell in a different colour. You will need to use the xcolor package: \usepackage[table]{xcolor}.