Challenges

1.1 Getting started

• Create a project on Overleaf.

• Choose your favourite animal and give your article an appropriate \title{ }.

• When you're ready, share your project with someone.

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.

Bonus challenges:

• Find a random fact online about the animal you chose and type it in your LaTeX file.

• Add a short paragraph (a couple of sentences) explaining why you chose your animal.

• If you'd like to have your project featured on this website, please share a read-only link to your project on Slack: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/6mhi. If you're working as a team, please include your team name in the message on Slack, and tag your team mates using@teammate.

1.2 Figures

• Insert an image of your chosen animal using the figure environment.

• Give your image a clever and creative caption!

Hint: Don't forget to use the graphicx package.

Bonus challenges:

• Can you change the height and width of your image instead of rescaling it?

• Use the label to refer to your figure.

2 Lists and Tables

2.1 Lists

• Create a new section titled "Dinner party", and a subsection titled "Food and drinks".

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

• 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 (*).

2.2 Table of tables

• Create another subsection under "Dinner party" called "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 (see Challenge 2.3).

2.3 Bingo extension challenge (optional)

Example bingo table

Hint 1

Overleaf has a comprehensive guide on tables. In particular, you may find the following useful: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/tables#Reference_guide

Hint 2

So you want to specify the width of your table's columns? We've seen leftl, centrec and rightr aligned columns. Another type of column alignment is paragraph, which will allow line wrapping. This is achieved using p{ }. Remember that { } indicates a required argument --- what could this be?

Solution

% p{1in} can be used to specify a column of width 1 inch
% The following code was used to produce the Example bingo table
% This table has columns of width 3cm.

\begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}|}
    \hline
    Share a file on Overleaf & Create a table & Attend a LaTeX workshop \\
    \hline
    Tweet about \#LaTeX      & Free space     & Download TeX on your PC \\
    \hline
    Use BibTeX               & Create a list  & Search for something on Google \\
    \hline
\end{tabular}

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}.