Hi guys,
If you plan on studying Science/Engineering (Especially areas like physics and mathematics) then LaTeX is an important thing to know.
Sometimes I notice that some of you don't post your questions using LaTeX and you're the worst people on the planet (really). So I've decided to compile a list of resources to help YOU get better at LaTeX.
Useful links
- Mao's short beginner's guide for forum use
- A youtube playlist of 12 video tutorials for beginners
- A playlist to help get you started using LaTeX, a free and powerful typesetting program used most often for composing documents about mathematics and science.
- The Wikibook on LaTeX
- One of the most complete LaTeX manuals I've found. Extremely helpful and downloadable in PDF format. (It's also probably one of the most complete wikibooks I've ever seen)
- Detexify
- A cool little tool I found a while back, but someone on IRC recently brought to my attention again is Detexify. Not sure what command to use to draw a symbol? Simply draw it and Detexify will try to figure out which symbol you want and tell you the command. Extremely useful.
- Mathbin
- A mathematical pastebin. Talking to your friends about maths on msn/skype/irc/<im progam of choice>? Then you're a nerd. But seriously, mathbin is great for showing your friends wtf you're talking about without having to write 'partial derivative of x wrt y divided by sin(x)....'
- The actual LaTeX website
- Speaks for itself I think
- Mao's Template
- Arbitrary LaTeX reference.
Software
- MiKTeX
- Pretty much required to have on Windows. Also comes with a non-WYSIWYG editor TeXWorks, which I personally use.
- ProTeXt
- Another LaTeX distribution for windows based off of MiKTeX. I haven't tried it so I can't comment on it.
- LyX
- A WYSIWYG editor to write your assignments in. Available for OS X, Windows, Linux and even OS/2.
- TeXnicCenter
- A non-wysiwyg editor to write your assignments in. Windows only.
- TexWorks
That's just about all I can think of at the moment. Got anything else to add? Put it in a reply and I'll add it to this post.
Oh yeah and don't forget:
MyNameisBob for national mod!
EDIT: Merged with Mao's sticky.