LaTeX
This page complements the introductory session on LaTeX, the document preparation system. This is provided for undergraduate project students and is also available to postgraduate students. The LaTeX lecture took place on- Monday 29 October at 1pm in SM1
Past handouts
| tex | |
| Installation guide | |
| Introduction and examples | Introduction and examples |
| Sample sheet | Sample sheet |
| Template for short projects | |
| Template for longer projects | |
| Translating error messages |
Resources
You may find the following resources useful- The not so short introduction to LaTeX 2e by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl.
- LaTeX: a document preparation system by Leslie Lamport (1986, Addison-Wesley).
- There are a couple of copies in the Queen's Building library under classmark Z253.4 L38.
- The help files of TeXnicCenter reproduce much of the information in this book, and are searchable.
Notes on computing
An alternative to TeXnicCenter is TeXworks. It does not need to be downloaded separately: it is included in the MiKTeX installation.
MiKTeX and TeXnicCenter are installed on the PCs in the Undergraduate Computing Lab. The first time you use TeXnicCenter you may find you need to follow the instructions in step C of the Installation guide. Please note a small difference: the path you must enter is
C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin
The Undergraduate Computing Lab PCs have Adobe Reader X installed, so you will need to follow the procedure set out at the end of the installation guide.
The installation guide above is directed towards Windows users. Apple Mac users can download MacTeX instead of MiKTeX and use TeXworks, which is included in the MacTeX installation, instead of TeXnicCenter.
