Tips.LaTeX.md

LaTeX Tips

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
• https://www.latex-project.org/
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Implementations

• https://miktex.org/
  • "MiKTeX (pronounced mick-tech) is an up-to-date implementation of TeX/LaTeX and related programs."
  • "TeX is a typesetting system written by Donald Ervin Knuth who says that it is intended for the creation of beautiful books - and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics."
  • "MiKTeX comes with TeXworks, a TeX frontend which you can use it to edit and preview LaTeX documents."

Tutorials

• https://www.tug.org/begin.html

• https://www.latex-tutorial.com/

• https://texample.net/

• https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/latex/

• https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-latex

• https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr10/cos433/Latex/latex-guide.pdf

• https://github.com/cambridge/thesis

  • "A LaTeX document class that conforms to the Computer Laboratory's PhD thesis formatting guidelines."

• http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/skills/documents/3722/3722-2014.pdf

• https://jeremykun.com/2015/01/10/my-latex-workflow-latexmk-sharelatex-and-stackedit/

• Youtube Videos

  • Sourav Singhal: Learn Latex in 5 minutes
  • Michelle Krummel: LaTeX tutorials (featuring Texmaker) - 16 videos
    • LaTeX Tutorial 1 - Creating a LaTeX Document
    • LaTeX Tutorial 2 - Common Math Notation - Part 1/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 2 - Common Math Notation - Part 2/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 3 - Brackets, Tables & Arrays - Part 1/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 3 - Brackets, Tables & Arrays - Part 2/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 4 - Lists
    • LaTeX Tutorial 5 - Text and Document Formatting - Part 1/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 5 - Text and Document Formatting - Part 2/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 6 - Packages, Macros, & Graphics - Part 1/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 6 - Packages, Macros, & Graphics - Part 2/2
    • LaTeX Tutorial 7 - Errors and Debugging
    • LaTeX Tutorial 8 - Texmaker Tips
    • LaTeX Tutorial 9 - Calculus Notation
    • LaTeX Tutorial: How to Format a Math Paper
    • LaTeX Tutorial 11: Beamer Slide Presentation
    • Using LaTeX to Create Anki Flashcards
  • Luke Smith: LaTeX tutorials - 10 videos
  • Alexander Baran-Harper: LaTeX tutorials - 12 videos

Github Examples

• https://github.com/PetarV-/TikZ

LaTeX Discussion Forums

• https://tex.stackexchange.com/

LaTeX Editing Tool Resources

• https://www.overleaf.com/

  • "The easy to use, online, collaborative LaTeX editor"
  • https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Main_Page
  • https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes

• Atom

  • https://atom.io/packages/latex

• Notepad++

  • https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/43984/using-notepad-with-miktex-on-windows
    • http://nimal.info/blog/2010/latex-on-windows-with-miktex-and-notepad/

• Eclipse

  • https://marketplace.eclipse.org/category/free-tagging/latex
  • https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-texlipse
    • https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-texlipse
    • https://github.com/eclipse/texlipse

• ChkTex - LaTeX semantic checker

  • http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex/
    • Baruch Even: "I am unlikely to continue development on ChkTeX, I'll mostly do bug fixes. If anyone is interested in stepping up and improve ChkTeX further it will be appreciated."

• Visual Studio Code, Marketplace Plugin

  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop

Suggested Books

• The LaTeX Companion (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting) 2nd Edition

  • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201362996/

• Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) 4th Edition

  • https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321173856/