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LaTeX Intro

LaTeX Intro. Tuesday May 6, 2014. What is LaTeX ?. Turns regular plain text into nice looking documents Useful for well-formatted equations Down with Microsoft Word Equation Editor!. Installation. Install LaTeX for your OS: http://www.howtotex.com/howto/

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LaTeX Intro

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  1. LaTeX Intro Tuesday May 6, 2014

  2. What is LaTeX? • Turns regular plain text into nice looking documents • Useful for well-formatted equations • Down with Microsoft Word Equation Editor!

  3. Installation • Install LaTeX for your OS: • http://www.howtotex.com/howto/ • (Recommended, unless you like the command line A LOT) • I use TexMaker, it’s pretty chill • http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html

  4. Equations in LaTeX • “Math” mode: Dollar signs • Enter variables with “\lambda” etc.

  5. Using LaTeX • Improve with practice • Resources: • See the LaTeX emerge as you write: • http://webdemo.myscript.com/home.html#equation • Identify single symbols: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

  6. Using LaTeX • Art of Problem Solving has lots of resources: • http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:LaTeX_on_AoPS • http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols • http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Commands

  7. Other Capabilities • Bibliography for easy citing • Sharelatex.org and other sites allow collaboration in the cloud

  8. Personal Example

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