Crash Course in LaTeX

• Home
• What? and Why?
  • What is LaTeX?
  • Why use LaTeX?
• Getting Started
  • Overview
  • Downloading LaTeX
  • Your first document
• Basics
  • Formatting
  • Structure (chapters, sections)
  • Math mode
  • Lists & footnotes
  • Tables & Arrays
  • Errors while compiling
• Workin' It
  • Packages
  • Drawing Pictures
  • Inserting Graphics
  • Floats
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Contents & Index
  • References
  • Making your own commands
  • Style files
  • PDFs, Slides, Posters, Web pages
  • R and Sweave
• Other References
  • LaTeX Project site
  • Not-so-short introduction
  • TeX Users Group
    • Starter links
  • TeX FAQ
  • A Guide to LaTeX (book)
  • List of Links
• Software
  • MiKTeX (LaTeX for Win32)
  • WinEdt (text editor)
  • jPicEdt (free drawing tool)
  • JabRef (free BibTeX tool)
  • jfig
  • TeXCAD32
• Source Samples

External Links

• LaTeX project site
• Not-so-short Introduction to LaTeX
• TUG: the TeX Users Group
• TeX FAQ
• Starter links
• A Guide to LaTeX: my favorite LaTeX book
• MiKTeX
• WinEdt
• jPicEdt
• JabRef
• jfig
• TeXCAD32
• excel2latex
• Tablas (English, Spanish)
• nano

Internal Links

• Same essay (about simulating shipboard life) using LaTeX and MS Word

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