First introduction to LaTeX

Re:First introduction to LaTeX by yzmtf2008 on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:52PM (#14240356)

Out of curiosity, what should I use instead? And what are some tutorials that promote more modern techniques?

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Re:First introduction to LaTeX by ajholyoake on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:08PM (#14241614)

\begin{equation} ... \end{equation}. Finding modern resources to learn LaTeX (and indeed TeX for macros etc) has been a perennial difficulty for me!

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Re:First introduction to LaTeX by occamrazor on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:17AM (#14245053)

Or \[ ... \] for unnumbered equations.

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Re:First introduction to LaTeX by maxnoe on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:40PM (#14250877)

I would use

  \begin{equation*}
    ...
  \end{equation*}

for consistency and ease of switching between numbered and unnumbered.

It's true, finding modern LaTeX tutorials is even harder that modern c++. It shares many of the same problems.

We put together a LaTeX course (in german) for physics student every year and keep it up to date with best practices as much as possible: http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.p...

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