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Learning LaTeX
If you look to the right, then you'll see a link to a previous year's course, which may still be of use.
This year's course can be found in the TeX and PDF attached below:
For those of you having problems with the links,
TEX: http://warwickmaths.org/sites/warwickmaths.org/files/Introduction_2.tex
PDF: http://warwickmaths.org/sites/warwickmaths.org/files/Introduction_2.pdf
If you find yourself stuck for how to do something, then some useful links are:
http://latextutorials.co.uk (written & maintained by one of our former members)
http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex (another good tutorial)
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/ (Draw any symbol you wish to input)
and of course,
http://www.google.co.uk
Also, here's LyX!
http://www.lyx.org/
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Submitted by Chris.M on 28 November 2011 - 1:04pm.
Text Editor
Just thought I'd mention this since I had a reasonable amount of trouble getting LaTeX to work properly on Windows XP (based on the instructions in the Stat Computing handout). I installed the MiKTeX download (nothing new there) but then found that various recommended text editors wouldn't locate the MiKTeX installation however hard I tweaked the settings.
I'm now using the text editor WinEdt (which is a shareware programme) that worked immediately with MiKTeX and has a pretty user friendly interface and help system.
Also to add a website that may be helpful to people looking for obscure symbols:
http://web.ift.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
Re: Text Editor
Just to add that I have been using WinEdt for a year or so and it really is a great editor. Syntax highlighting and shortcuts for symbols make composing documents much faster, and it has tools to generate tables / manage pictures and deal with other cumbersome tasks. It's real cheap to buy (there is a discount for educational use) and well worth it.
Installation Instructions
Installing LaTeX on your own computer isn't difficult, but finding the right links is hard. To Install LaTeX on your computer depends what type of computer you have.
Windows Installation Instructions
Mac Installation Instructions
Personally, I suggest a
Personally, I suggest a straight MiKTeX install, available here and as for a text editor, as I say later in this guide, I've found LEd to be by far the best editor around (unfortunately it is Windows-only, there is no Linux version, and Kile isn't really as good).
Jamie
Direct link and some comments
For what it's worth the direct link for the MiKTeX download (version 2.6) is here.
As I'm a Mac user, I don't really know which Windows/Linux version is best, so if the consensus is that installing MikTex and using LEd is easier to do, I'm happy to edit my link to point to that instead as it's far more confusing to have lots of different links, especially if you are unsure.
I do remember that when I originally installed LaTeX on my Mac in 2005 I had to send the creator of one of the Mac GUI LaTeX programs an email to ask how to do it (FWIW He was very helpful) as it was really difficult to find the weblinks. Now there is a Mac Guide (linked in the original comment) to guide you through it and MacTeX people have created a really nice installer so it's now really easy to install LaTeX on a Mac :).
Though I think this content would be better placed on the page itself rather than in the comments and then link to whichever versions for the various OS's are the easiest to install.
Matthew