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LaTeX tutorial
« on: December 09, 2007, 04:21:53 pm »
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I've come to know LaTeX somewhat intimately over the past year - I've been typesetting some of my Methods assignments and notes using it (my handwriting is terrible!). Here are some of the things I commonly used, feel free to contribute more. A list of LaTeX mathematical symbols is available at http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/Symbols.pdf.

Fractions

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\frac{4}{5}


Trigonometric Functions

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\sin x

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\cos x

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\tan x

Logarithms and Indices

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\log_{2} 6

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10^{20}

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\sqrt{36}

Limits

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\lim_{x\to\infty}

Elementary Arithmetic

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4 + 5

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4 - 5

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4 \times 5

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4 \div 5
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2007, 05:38:18 pm »
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2007, 07:22:39 pm »
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Thanks Josh, this is definitely helpful :)

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I've been typesetting some of my Methods assignments and notes using it (my handwriting is terrible!)
My handwriting's bad too :P
I used to use the equation editor in OpenOffice for formatting equations :D
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 04:01:12 pm »
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 05:37:45 pm »
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.

Is it commercial software? :(

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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 06:11:39 pm »
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well yes, but as if you wouldn't bittorrent...
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2007, 02:57:12 am »
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?

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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2007, 08:12:22 am »
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2007, 03:17:30 pm »
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.

Yeah, I had MathType for a year now, its great :)

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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2007, 05:50:25 pm »
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?
http://freestudynotes.com/VCEforum/index.php/topic,807.0.html

anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.

Yeah, I had MathType for a year now, its great :)
I used to use MathType when I used Microsoft Office, but IMO the equation editor in OpenOffice is better :)
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2007, 07:49:36 pm »
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If only this board supported LaTeX built in...
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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2007, 08:03:06 pm »
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If only this board supported LaTeX built in...

It is.

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[tex]\mbox{Hello world}[/tex]

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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2007, 01:42:15 pm »
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Could you possibly make it that so when you click on the generated text it gives you the source code?
i.e see here

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Re: LaTeX tutorial
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2007, 09:23:03 pm »
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phagist_, I'll see what I can do :)
For now, you can click the "Quote" link next to a post and then look in the quote for the code. Or, right-click the image and view its properties, the LaTeX expression will be present in the URL, after the ?

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http: //stuff.daniel15.com/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi?%5Cmbox{Hello%20world}
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« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2008, 01:12:01 am »
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how do we apply these latex symbols in posts, do we just paste them in after the number?
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