LaTeX
Latex is a program for typesetting papers. It is very good at typesetting math, so it is commonly used in fields that require equations to be displayed in papers.
Installation
- Windows
- download and run the install-tl.zip file from here http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html
- install texmaker
- Macs
- Follow the instructions here http://www.tug.org/mactex/2011/
- Ubuntu Linux
- use synaptic to install the texlive package
> sudo apt-get install texmaker
Note that the net installers look deceptively small is size, but the texlive folder on my windows machine is about 2.5 GB in size, so make sure you have HD space before you start!
2) Install a LaTeX editor. I use the cross-platform Texmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/)
3) Install REVTeX https://authors.aps.org/revtex4/
It may be useful to refer to this site: http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/tips-customstyles.html when installing the custom styles and bibliography formats.
4) Get this example template: File:Advanced lab.tar (Use 7-Zip, http://www.7-zip.org/, on Windows to extract this .tar file.)
5) Configure Texmaker: go to toolbar, choose options/quick build/User, add the following text
latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|bibtex %.aux|latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|latex -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex|dvips -t letter %.dvi -o %.ps|ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress %.ps
Using LaTeX
LaTeX Wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
LaTeX Cookbook: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/tex/cookbook.html
