Burkina: An association provides academics with tools to use ‘Latex’, practical software for writing documents


Ouagadougou: The Circle of Researchers association (CDC) initiated training on Saturday at Josep KI-Zerbo University to strengthen the capacities of teacher-researchers, doctoral students and doctors on handling of ”Latex”, an ‘essential’ software in the world of research for the production of articles, dissertations and theses.

‘Latex remains today an essential software in the world of research in the context of the production of articles, the writing of dissertations and documentary production,’ indicated the manager in charge of research and training of the Association of Researchers’ Circles (CDC), Dr Bougouma Ali.

For Dr Bougouma, the ‘latex’ software offers many possibilities and advantages.

According to him, this software allows you to easily download documents and work without problems, with very high reliability and data security. For him,

‘So, this is why we wanted to initiate this training for our members and our supporters so that they can make it their own with a view to its use in the teac
hing of students and other training, he added.

For him, this training aims to equip them so that they can use it wisely with much more ease.

‘It’s a fairly effective and flexible tool in terms of use. You also do not need a license to use it. Your data is not elsewhere either. It’s just on your computers,’ added the trainer, Dr Ouédraogo Adama.

For Dr Ouédraogo, the software offers users a fairly simple ‘language’ to be able to write documents.

For him, it also makes it possible to have documents that are well presented, visible and accessible to all.

Source: Burkina Information Agency