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I highly recommend TeXmaker, a free crossplattform lightweight tex editor with syntax highlighting and a preview window. When installing, make sure you have miktex installed before, and all the settings should be fine as they are and you should be able to just use it without much fiddling around=)

Do yourself a favor and switch to LaTeX. You can easily make up for the short period it takes to get accustomed to it with the time you routinely spend wrangling bullshit in Word. It just does all the typesetting, image and paragraph placement, chapter, page, equation and reference numbering, index, etc, etc for you, no muss, no fuss. Especially if you do anything with formulas, images or citations, your life will be so much easier and you look like a pro.

Miktex, to compile your documents(Install this first)

Texmaker, just one possible Latex editor

Editing LaTeX → Texmaker

Editing di immagini vettoriali (es.: svg) → Inkscape

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Però siamo abbastanza lontani dalle soluzioni proprietarie (soprattutto il divario Inkscape - Illustrator è abissale).

Well, texmaker website has a contact section here; http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/#contact

You could ask about it there i suppose. I personally do not know if they use a public bug tracker or mailing list.

Texmaker. While the editor will look exactly the same, you won't get the results I'm getting. I use a pretty complicated, modular, template I found on the internet somewhere.

Live preview is overrated in my opinion. When learning, you want to typeset (compile) the document often to see your changes. When you got the basics down, it's not important per se; you can imagine how the document will look.

For learning, there's a ton of ressources on the internet. I like this one. Honestly, you don't want wysiwg. When you've used LateX for a while and beaten the initial learning curve, you won't go back to MS Word.

For OS X there's a bunch of editors. I've heard good things about texmaker. I personally use Vim with a bunch of plugins. In the end it's a matter of personal preference.

You need two things. First and foremost, you need a TeX distribution. I highly recommend MiKTeX. After that, you could start writing in a simple text editor. However, pretty much everyone uses a specialized TeX editor, and for that I recommend Texmaker. Such a program will make it easier to write LaTeX commands, compile it, view the output, etc. Which editor you use is mostly a matter of taste, but I highly recommend against some popular ones like WinEdt and Texworks.

Do it!! I suggest starting to learn now so that when it is time for you thesis, you aren't wasting time trying to figure out syntax and packages.

I'm a fan of TeXMaker myself. Lets me see nicely what I'm doing in a dual pane window. Plus as an added bonus, it's cross platform.

TexMaker is great on Windows, and I know it works on Mac (so I assume it has a Ubuntu version). Provides simultaneous code view and pdf view so you don't have to swap back and forth. It too is like an IDE, in that it highlights syntax errors before compiling and autocompletes many statements.

First learn how to structure your document, basically there are three things you need to understand for this:

• How to set the correct preamble for the kind of document you want to create (think the header of an HTML document, where all the metadata goes)

• How to set and use the correct environments (an environment contains the sections where the actual content goes, each environment has its own formatting and style rules, for example there's an environment for lsits, another for titles, another for graphs, etc)

• And then learn how to use the modes, you have basically three modes: a text mode, an in-line equation mode (which allows you to introduce equations or formulas in the middle of a paragraph) and an equation mode.

My recommendation is to read this free book, it's "long" but it covers everything you need to know with tons of examples: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

Also, download a good editor, I use Texmaker in Linux (I think it's multiplatform). If you use Windows also make sure to install Miktex which basically is a Tex "engine" or implementation.

>As for an editor, I love [2] MiKTeX for PC.

If I'm not mistaken MikTeX is an implementation of LaTeX for windows, and the editor that comes with it is called TeXworks. In either case if you're using windows you will want to use MikTeX, and TeXworks is a pretty good editor. I would also recommend TeXmaker for beginners.

I think it depends on which LaTeX editor you're using. IIRC, only Cocoa-based apps have access to the text substitution database, and I believe they also all have a standard menu structure. In which case, you may be able to turn it off by going to the menu bar under Edit/Substitutions, and unchecking Text Replacement, as seen in TextEdit, for example.

You could also just use another delimeter, like a hash (#) instead of a backslash - so, make it replace "#alpha", for example.

EDIT: If you're not yet partial to any one editor, an alternate solution is to use a robust, non-Cocoa TeX editor, such as texmaker.

Try using a different editor like Texmaker. I found that took care of all the configuring and left me with the job of writing. And I found it much nicer than Texniccenter to work with.

First, you need a (La)TeX distribution installed on your personal computer, such as TeX Live or MiKTeX, depending on your OS. Then you have to open the .tex file in order to compile it. Here you can read TeXmaker's documentation.

J'ai longtemps utilisé TexMaker, je crois qu'il installe tout ce qu'il faut avec le package, mais pour m'embêter moins j'ai fini par passer à Overleaf (site en ligne), c'est plus pratique je trouve, rien à installer .

I like using Texmaker as the frontend for LaTeX.

You write it as a normal Latex document, but you have all the additional UI to help you write it. More user friendly than texworks, much neater than Lyx :)

I'm not familiar with the ShareLatex nor the "timed out error". This sounds like a compiling error. You should do the compilation locally (on your personal computer) with something like Texmaker which will provide more insight to correct any errors.

Download texmaker (gives you buttons for all the math things), detexify for finding symbols (this shit is awesome, you draw the symbol with your mouse and it gives you the code) and share latex tutorials for everything else.

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html https://www.sharelatex.com/learn

Non è necessario Vim, puoi usare un qualsiasi editor di testi. Devi però capire che fondamentalmente scrivere in TeX è come scrivere in un linguaggio di programmazione: tu scrivi, crei il documento, ma la visualizzazione (per esempio il pdf) lo si deve generare a parte a partire da quello che hai scritto.

Per evitarti tutti 'sti passaggi (che il più delle volte non ti servono), ti consiglio TeXMaker, che dovrebbe andar bene su xubuntu e ha tutte le funzioni utili di cui avrai bisogno. Ti sconsiglio come la morte di usare Atom, è pietoso e di una pesantezza assurda.

Per le guide, inizia con questa.

I'm a fan of Texmaker. There are a million different editors (plus even more plaintext editors if that's what you're into) for writing LaTeX - just gotta try them out until you find an environment that's comfortable for you.

I like sharelatex, it's the easiest way to get from nothing to actual paper writing quickly, no installs or anything (it's an online service).

If you want to use it on your computer, TexMaker is my favorite, mostly because it has a consistent interface across platforms.

I (and most others I know) use TeXMaker. It's absolutely wonderful.

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

Fwiw, don't use LyX. It tries to make life easier by being WYSIWYG, but that's exactly opposite to the benefit of using LaTeX - people are awful at typesetting, just stick the content down, and let a class file do the menial task of making it look pretty for you.

You can try customising what I currently have:

• Download a latex environment (e.g. Texmaker).
• Download my files and try to compile trollpdf.tex
• As soon as you got this, start customising. Replace harmlessDocument.pdf with your document and replace the custom text in trollpdf.tex with your custom text.

Maybe I'll look into it some more and see if I can write a python script that takes a view.pdf and a print.pdf and produces the corresponding manipulated file. I'd have to learn more about the pdf format, but this could be an interesting excercise.

Download ltx-beelines-example.tex beegradients.tex beegradients.lua and put in a folder together. The example one is the one you will be changing.

You'll need to install a LaTeX distro like http://miktex.org/ (and optionally an editor like http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/ or you could do it via command line)

This is a great start! Thanks for doing this-- I've never actually taken the time to learn how to properly do a .bib file but will definitely need to do so in the near future.

I would include something about the ability to put comments (i.e. the stuff preceded by %) within the text. Whenever I'm writing a paper, I use comments to outline the topics, leave myself notes about stuff to research in more detail later, etc. (I also use this to hide chunks of text rather than deleting them, in case I want to use that text somewhere else later!) The commenting feature is one of the biggest advantages of LaTeX over other word processors, IMO. And you should definitely say something about special characters that require the backslash, such as %, $ and &.

I'd also like to take a moment to plug Texmaker, which is one of the nicest editors I've come across (plus, it's cross-platform!)

TexMaker is cross platform, and my LaTeX editor of choice. It works well, has a lot of features, isn't slow, and has a built in document viewer, which can be pretty nice. http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html

If you're a beginner on OS X, you might want to try texmaker. I just switched over to OS X and this was my favorite, especially because of the ease of use. For example, it has a table wizard, auto-complete for commands, and menus for symbols in case you forget the command.

I know this is an old post, but just wanted to share that with you. Hope the LaTeX experience is going well!

Edit:Browsed a bit further and found this link where a person describes their move to texmaker: http://robjhyndman.com/researchtips/texmakerx/

Menu Start > MiKTeX 2.9 > Maintenance (Admin) > Package Manager (Admin)

Select (all) packages and press Install (+).

http://i.imgur.com/GLYtK.png

As an editor I recommend Texmaker. Everything perfect works out-of-the-box.

I really like Texmaker, been using it for the past few weeks for University work and it's worked pretty well. Still need to use command line to get detailed error output. http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

>The problem is - my handwriting's not always easy to read (and my drawing skills aren't that remarkable either 😏)

Same. I mostly just retype it all after class and use graph paper for notes so they don't get too messy.

LaTeX is probably the best thing for typing up math but is slow to adapt to. It's basically a math coding language for lack of a better comparison.

You can use stuff like TexMaker or Winedt to try to make it easier. But it might be too slow for notes.

Upper year Math students almost certainly know it and the library might have a class on it.

>*Just some extra feature that I'd love, but not as crucial - f you know of a software that allows you to write over a PDF file while still maintaining the possibility for the PDFs text to be searched.

I believe OneNote can do that, but it does it by changing it into an image (can still Cntl-F) and that means easy to drag image by accident and fuck it up a bit. Also takes a little while to load the image in.

OneNote is also where my code cheat sheet is rn.

Otherwise I have been using Foxit PDF Reader for commenting PDFs and it's seemed to have worked decently for limited purposes.

Ich empfehle dir, zum Verwalten der Quellen ein Programm wie Zotero zu verwenden. Das reduziert Fehler und Aufwand beim korrekten Zitieren, und ist meiner Meinung nach geeignet, um alles an einer Stelle zu behalten.

Für das eigentliche Schreiben der VWA hab ich damals LaTex verwendet. Wenn man das zum ersten mal verwendet, ist das ein bisschen ein extra Aufwand, aber es lohnt sich wirklich.

• Wenn deine Betreurin vor der Abgabe noch schnell Änderungen an der Formatierung haben will, kannst du das extrem schnell und ohne Stress umsetzen. Desto länger ein Word-Dokument wird, desto mehr Arbeit ist es etwas an der Formatierung zu ändern

• Du wirst das an der Uni ohnehin lernen müssen.

• LaTex macht den Umgang mit Qellen (Fußnoten/Verweise/Bibliographie generieren) extrem leicht.

Zum eigentlichen Schreiben hab ich folgende Tipps:

• Fang früh genug an. Nimm dir vor jeden Tag zumindest dein Dokument aufzumachen und dir durchzulesen was zu bisher gemacht hast.

• Ein Abstract ist nich das gleiche wie eine Einführung.

Start with Texmaker as your editor. You will need a LaTeX package as well to run it. I recommend MiKTeX.

As a guide, a friend of mine wrote a book that you may find useful! It is located here: https://assets.bitbashing.io/modern-latex.pdf

I'm unsure of what distribution I am using (yeah, I am a noob).

I got Texmaker from Octopi Package Manager (with this URL as their source for the package http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html)

TexMaker

You'll also need to download an actual LaTeX distribution for the editor to use. Something like MiKTeX will work.

Between those two links (and Google) should get you up and running

Well although it is not easy, as others have told you already, it should come somewhat easier to you than to other people because it will feel like learning another programming language. There's also a good deal of resources online, and probably most (if not all) questions you may find while creating a document for your classes will be already answered in some forum or another.

LaTeX is particularly useful for math-related assignments, and I do not understand how some CS majors can get through their algorithms classes by just using Word, but that's just me. For drawing finite automata I would recommend using TikZ. I am not familiar with GasTeX, but there is a lot of support and resources for TikZ. You can just look up some template online like this, and whichever details or additional features you'd like to include, you could probably solve by looking through the TikZ manual

It takes a bit to get used to, but I found that the best way to learn LaTeX was to simply do homework with it. The first couple of assignments might take you a bit longer to finish. After you get the hang of it, find your favorite template, and understand the naming conventions of things, you should do just fine (and I say naming convention is important because sometimes you don't know that what you're looking for has a trivial solution if you just know the proper terms).

Also, after you get your first try of LaTeX, I would recommend trying an editor like texmaker to make your life easier.

Texmaker is my editor of choice. I use it on Linux, but it's cross-platform.

It has auto-complete, a bunch of wizards for quick building of tables, etc. Very intuitive and easy to use.

This, and also managing large (100+ page) documents is so much more simple in LaTeX. Making changes to images / charts is better, and they behave better in text. The only thing that isn't really neat / intuitive is generating large tables.

Would recommend TeXMaker as an editor: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

Hmm. Last ditch effort, download and extract the texmaker source from http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/texmaker-4.5.tar.bz2

Go into the directory and run

qmake-qt5 PREFIX=/usr texmaker.pro

Check that is fails with the same error message as previously then run (you need strace installed)

strace qmake-qt5 PREFIX=/usr texmaker.pro 2> /tmp/qt_log

Then upload that file somewhere and link it here.

You know that many Latex-editors also have the option to immediately show you the PDF, right? Texmaker has it, for instance. Hell, this online Latex thingy has it.

Using Microsoft Word to type mathematical formulas is like dying a slow death.

Download a LaTeX distribution first and install it. Then download a nice IDE like TexMaker to make use of the LaTeX language. Such an IDE also has commonly used code snippets available to use. Also, there are tons of examples online; just google them. It's awkward to use at first, but it's cool once you get used to it and it makes beautiful documents.

Distribution: http://miktex.org/ TexMaker: http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

Well, I cheat a little, I use TexMaker (link), so that speeds it up a bit. It also helps that right now, in calc III, nothing gets too syntactically complex. The worst is probably things that involve nesting \frac a few times. And even then, it comes out beautiful enough that I deal with it.

My handwriting is bad when I'm unrushed- rushed handwriting nears illegible and there have been many times when I had to go borrow my friend's notes when I couldn't figure out if what I had written as an x, y or a lambda. So while I may drop a little behind at some points, the legibility is worth it. And I'm usually faster if the lecturer decides to put up walls of text for definitions, which he does at least once a class period.

I use F6 to compile my LaTeX documents in TexMaker on almost a daily basis, because Microsoft Word blows - especially for equations.

Certainly. I use Texmaker, which is pretty much the easiest way to start using LaTeX anyway. This particular document uses "\documentclass[12pt, letterpaper]{article}" with all the default looks. Once the next chapter is released, it will have a link to this subreddit using the "\hyperref" package. Also, I use the "\graphicsx" package for images. I would recommend this book if you want to start using LaTeX yourself. Bon courage!

Texmaker is great once you get to know a bit of LaTeX. It is cross platform, adds most of the stuff you will ALWAYS use in a latex document so you don't need to know how to start a document. It's the most intuitive editor I have found for LaTeX. I don't like LyX because I find it slows me down.

Install (full) MikTeX 2.9 and Texmaker (Automatically works with MikTeX with no configuration required, integrated pdf viewer with syncing in both directions etc.) and enjoy with LaTeX.

I transitioned from using Texmaker to the combination of vim with a Makefile as I became more proficient with the text editor. It was handy to have toolbars with Latex symbols/commands but I just couldn't do without the productivity gain in editing with vim.