LaTeX

LaTeX is a document preparation system widely used by the scientific community. There are many resources on the Web about LaTeX. Here we gather a small list of useful links for beginners to find out what LaTeX can do for them.

• The LaTeX project page .
• AMS-LaTeX includes many more desireable features for typesetting articles in mathematics.
• TUG--The TeX Users Group.
• CTAN stands for the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. As its name suggested, one can find comprehensive information about TeX (and LaTeX) there.
• Document classes and packages are two important features of LaTeX. You can find the description of the LaTeX packages and document classes that are avaliable on CTAN. The directory for the actual packages can be found here
• AUCTeX is an extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in GNU Emacs and XEmacs.
• TeX FAQ (from the UK TeX Users Group)
• The TeX Catalogue Online
• Here is a resourceful TeX help page .
• This page contains some information on how to produce good pdf files from TeX files.
• Prosper is a document class that allows LaTeX users to make slide presentations.
• The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer presentation. It can also be used to create slides. It behaves similarly to other packages like Prosper, but has the advantage that it works together directly with pdflatex, but also with dvips.
• PDFLaTeX by examples.
• Hyperref is a TeX package for making documents with live links in PDF and HTML output formats.
• I have installed the vaucanson-g package on the department machine. It is a package for drawing various graphs in particular for drawing finite automata. Here is the manual.
• Here is a comprehensive list of LaTeX symbols.
• Here is a list of LaTeX commands.

A tip for beginners: if you want LaTeX to do something, for example typeset a test, look for an existing documentclass, package or command that will do the job (in this case, there is a document class called "exam") before starting to write your own codes. Most of the time the exisiting solutions are pretty good and can save you a lot of time.

I would like to learn more about LaTeX by solving problems. So let me know if you have questions about LaTeX.