A document preparation system which is used by many academics and students to write up their projects, assignments, publications and presentation slides.
Tools to edit and compile LaTeX are freely and widely available on the web.
- A popular book, based on Amazon ranking, is More Math Into \LaTeX published by Springer, and for University of Waterloo students available for free from the Springerlink website. The author made a set of free available videos for getting you easily started.
- An excellent online tutorial is available from the Andrew Roberts home page.
Faculty of Mathematics training modules
This material consists of 11 pdf documents designed to train staff in the Faculty of Mathematics in using Latex. All the documents are available as a single zip file (ZIP) if you wish to download them.
| Module | Topics |
|---|---|
| Module 1 (PDF) | Introduction, various editors, headers |
| Module 2 (PDF) | Typefaces, font size, special characters, spacing |
| Module 3 (PDF) | Structure of the document class, justification of paragraphs and sections |
| Module 4 (PDF) | Lists |
| Module 5 (PDF) | Tables |
| Module 6 (PDF) | Image formats, importing graphics |
| Module 7 (PDF) | Typesetting formulas, equations |
| Module 8 (PDF) | Spacing, mathematical typeface, alignment, labels and references |
| Module 9 (PDF) | Typesetting lengthy equations, matrices |
| Module 10 (PDF) | Mathematical accents, binary operation symbols, relational operators, delimiters |
| Module 11 (PDF) | Error handling, types of errors |
Advanced LaTeX
Once you have figured out the basics of LaTeX, inform yourself about: