latex
11 months ago
i want to learn latex
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How to learn LaTeX
It made me
feel free
 "I learned to produce beautiful documents quickly and easily."
How I did it: First I decided that I'm not going to slave away with a word processor to write my thesis. Then I installed MikTeX, which makes the Windows machine LaTeX capable. Then I downloaded the Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX and LaTeX for Word Processor Users (which tells one how to do something with LaTeX starting from the way one would do it in a word processor.) Then I started producing my own documents, the first being a presentation done with a PDF. I don't use a tool with a graphical user interface, but a text editor that allows me to execute command-line programs. Lessons & tips:
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It made me
How I did it: I downloaded and printed out "The not so short introduction to LaTex". And I went straight ahead to work on a geometry course assignment that I needed to write formal proofs with boxes at the end, italicizing the theorem, all kinds of math symbols, etc. Read how I did it…
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Vaguely superior
How I did it: The first thing I got was TextMate, the editor, for Mac. Textmate ships with several built-ins for LaTeX.Step two, download and install Skim. When you preview LaTeX text in Textmate, you'll want to use Skim for the preview. It remembers which page you were on, etc.Alter Textmate to use Skim in the LaTeX bundle.OK, so now you can edit. Here's a handy trick. In Textmate, do a File -> New from template -> latex … Read how I did it…
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It made me
How I did it: I used the internet. There's a multitude of documentation, tutorials, and discussion groups out there with the answers to all your questions. One particularly helpful document is the "not so short introduction to LaTeX" which can be found here. Read how I did it…
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18 months ago
This will be a huge thing for me, if I can. Considering my education and possible future life, I should start soon.
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2 years ago
Well I decided to start writing my first year report (for my PhD) in LaTeX and pretty much have a handle on it now. I’m sure I’ll need to pop back to the documentation if I need something fancy, but I can knock up the important stuff.
Got the proggies already.
2 years ago
Got texmakerWin and niktex, a professor in my dept likes this a lot and is even giving free courses on it :-)
Tutorials...
2 years ago
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/ tilde dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Misc/LaTeX-Tutorial/LaTeX-Home.html
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/ tilde pyo22/students/latexRelated/latexTutorial.html
http://it.metr.ou.edu/latex/
A bit cryptic, but quite worth it
3 years ago
There’s lots of tutorials online and alternatives can’t really compare. I’ve been using TeXShop and BibDesk, which integrate everything really well, and abstract away a bit from having to remember key words.
LaTeX
3 years ago
I’d like to learn it becuase I will be doing the layout for a science journal project, at university, and I’ve been reading about typography a lot since a few months and that makes you realize what a mediocre piece of software Microsoft Word is for these purposes.
My logic professor introduced me to LaTeX, like Rob is saying: it’s essential if you want to use a lot of mathematical symbols.
Thanks for all those tutorials, I will be diving into them soon :)
