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LaTeX Guide

Post Icon Posted: Submitted by darthsteven on 1 October 2006 - 9:37am.

Joined: 2006-08-31
Posts: 694

I'm planning to write a guide for LaTeX, to help our members write mathematical documents, and to add some content to the website. Our old site did have some sort of LaTeX guide. I want to know what sort of thing you would like to have in a new guide and what you want to know about LaTeX.

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Post Icon Posted: 25 October 2006 - 3:23pm

Joined: 2006-10-25
Posts: 6

Programs for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux that you can use to make LaTeX documents without the command line.
How to install LaTeX itself on Windows/Mac OS X/Linux.
A list of LaTeX symbols.
How to create matrices.
Links to other online help for LaTeX.

http://guides.macrumors.com/Installing_LaTeX_on_a_Mac is a page giving information about this for Mac OS X and has some other general links, something similar (obviously with instructions for Windows/Linux too) would probably be a good start. As on the linked site you could make it a Wiki (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki for more) so anyone can edit it.

Some more general information about document formatting would also be good.
Post Icon Posted: 16 February 2008 - 3:30pm

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Posts: 129

One thing I am a little unclear about is precisely how LaTeX works on this site, and when you have to use LaTeX and when you use Textile. For Example, when I type

\usepackage{bbm}

$$ \sum_{(your \; mum)=1}^{\infty + sex} \frac{you}{your \; mum} = \mathbbm{yippee \; ki \; yay} $$

that the "yippee ki yay" does not go into blackboard bold, and the usepackage command floats there like ordinary text. How do I know when the site will interpret my commands as LaTeX or Textile?
Post Icon Posted: 16 February 2008 - 8:09pm

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An odd example.

http://warwickmaths.org/filter/tips will be of some help.
Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 12:30am

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Posts: 129

The Textile help page is all very well and good, and I already know that this site has extensive LaTeX help pages, but what I'm still confused about is when each is used?

Is it as simple as LaTeX for math mode, Textile for paragraph mode? If so, what does that mean for things like blackboard bold fonts and the like?
Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 1:47am

Joined: 2007-10-04
Posts: 188

My question is how on earth do we find that page from just looking round the website? I can't find a link anywhere
Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 2:03am

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Posts: 373

You get it when you write a message, click "input format" and then "more information about formatting options" !
Simple as that.
Post Icon Posted: 17 February 2008 - 10:14am

Joined: 2006-08-31
Posts: 694

Yeah, Input formats are rather hidden away in Drupal.

@Ben: The default site-wide format, LaTeX + Textile runs the filters in the following order:

  1. DruTeX - filters the LaTeX commands out, but doesn't put the html back in, yet.
  2. URL filter - turns urls into clickable links
  3. HTML filter - removes unsafe html elements
  4. DruTeX - puts the html version of the LaTeX back in.
  5. TexTile - changes things like h2. into headings, etc.
Post Icon Posted: 16 May 2008 - 3:17pm

Joined: 2007-10-03
Posts: 3

Are there various bits broken on the LaTeX course? http://warwickmaths.org/1_5_mathematical_notation seems to be broken, and the class1.pdf link on http://warwickmaths.org/1_introduction is also broken. Is there any chance that these can be resurrected from the dead? :)

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