Introduction to LaTeX

On this page you will find a few links to help you get started with LaTeX as a writing tool.

I have on a couple of occasions given a short talk about how to get started writing documents in LaTeX. It is a very simple introduction, listing a few tools, giving the most basic commands and a few examples. You can find a version of my slides.

If you are going to write your thesis, a few hints on how to organize your work can be found in this article by Lapo F. Mori .

You will also find some more LaTeX links here. I will try to organize them a bit better later.

Links

Software

NameDescription
MikTeXThis is the LaTeX distribution for Windows.
EmacsThe GNU Emacs editor. A very good editor for writing LaTeX.
XEmacsXEmacs and Emacs are for most practical purposes the same. Just pick one. For Windows I prefere XEmacs.
JabRefA cross platform (java) application for keeping track of your BibTeX database.
BibDeskAlso a BibTex database manager, but native for OS X. This is my prefernce when using OS X.
rubberRubber is a command line program used to help compile your LaTeX documents.

Last Updated: January 20 2010 20:41:19

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