What is Reddit's opinion of TeXworks?

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LaTeX is awesome I second this. Once you get used to the syntax, it's extremely easy to get documents to "look" how you envision them.

It's also very well supported and make sure to check out all the packages that go with it.

• I recommend the Wikibooks LaTeX Guide for a run through and tutorials on how to do stuff.

• I also recommend TeXworks as my favorite LaTeX editor. It's much more simple than a lot of dedicated LaTeX editors in that it doesn't have all the buttons and automated bells and whistles other editors have, but it automatically downloads any package you declare in your document so you don't have to go searching for them.

Most LaTeX guides list useful basic packages and what they do, but I've found some real gems more-so on happenstance and on accident.

LuaLatex is a compiler that comes pre-loaded in TeXworks, and works right out of the box. You can get it to work with other packages, or standalone - but I use it with TeXworks because I like the instant-gratification of the PDF view in split-screen.

It accepts any regular Lua code from basic arithmetic to heavy, iterated computations. I use it to open and read files, perform computations on the data, then print the data nicely into my LaTeX document - all done automatically.

One guy even wrote a paper on how to do hardcore numerical methods including Runge-Kutta differential equation solutions in LuaLatex. That's how powerful it can be if you want.

Anyways, all you have to do is include the luacode header ( \usepackage{luacode} ), and declare the numbers you will be using as variables at the top of your document in a block of code:

\begin{luacode*} x = 22 y = 44 z = x*y \end{luacode*}

From there you can recall any Lua variables or perform computations on them at any point in your text with the directlua escape sequence: For example:

"The answer is: \directlua{tex.print(x)}."

which will give you

"The answer is 22."

or

Y/X is \directlua{tex.print(y/x)}.

which will typeset as

"Y/X is 2."

TeXworks !

Wiki with screenshot.

Edit: added bonus: if you call any \usepackage{} that you don't have, it auto-downloads it in the background, so you don't have to install . .

You could try TeXworks.

Forgive me, I can't resist adding my $0.02: a large percentage of posts here are not about LaTeX but are instead about how the person is wrestling with whatever wrapper program that person is using. You could do a lot worse than to pick emacs (what I use, FWIW) or vi to input the LaTeX, and then occasionally compile by hand, and update the viewer by hand.

Svrha LaTeX-a jeste da tekstualni fajl koji sadrzi opis i sadrzaj dokumenta sa uputstvima za formatiranje, pretvori u neki drugi format, najcesce PDF spreman za stampu. LaTeX nije WYSIWYG editor, niti word processor kao npr. MS Word.

Popularan je, pre svega u akademskim krugovima, zbog toga sto sustinski predstavlja tekstualni fajl koji sadrzi celokupan opis i sadrzaj dokumenta ukljucujuci i formatiranje i zgodan je za predstavljanje formula .

LaTeX je u sustini jezik za opisivanje i prelom dokumenata i vise ga treba posmatrati kao standard, a ne samo kao alat, posto su te "verzije" koje vidis frontovi koji omogucavaju lakse koriscenje osnovnog skupa alata (Editor + LaTeX + pdfLaTeX).

Kratko uputstvo za koriscenje, sa primerima mozes npr. naci u vidu http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/skills/documents/3722/3722-2014.pdf koji se oslanja konkretno na TeXWorks, kao i svi alati koji postoje od sedamdesetih, Tex/LaTeX imaju svoju filozofiju koriscenja koja je starija od savremenih resenja, pa je s toga potrebno uloziti vise vremena da se ista razume.

I've compiled locally what you've uploaded successfully. I use TeXworks and I have texlive on my laptop.

Something has to do with TexStudio. Note that I've compiled your file by using pdflatex.

I just had a look through my latex documentation folder and I have tons of primers and intros, but honestly I haven't gone through them all. There's so many to choose from I can't honestly recommend one over the other. I got started by downloading templates and starting with small documents and searching online when I got stuck.

Have a look at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68267/introduction-to-latex-and-markup

I've been using TeXworks for awhile now (http://www.tug.org/texworks/), which should be easy enough to get started with.

Start small with simple documents eg. equations and build up from there. And don't try learning it all just days before anything is due!

You won't go wrong with MiKTeX, that is for sure.

But just to register an alternative opinion, FWIW, I'd get TeX Live and TeXworks. The latter was created by the TeX Users Group specifically for people starting out to provide a simple but effective way to get off and running. My $0.02.

Edit Oops, I forgot to mention MicKichan. They are a commercial outfit that has a graphical user interface around LaTeX that is combined with a calculational engine (they used to use maple but now I think they use MuPad). As a commercial vendor you'd get support for some things, which a lot of people value. I've never used their product but they have been around for years, which says something. Ask them for a demo.

The TeX Live distribution is supported by TUG and other user groups.

Many people also like a wrapper. A good small footprint one with the most asked for features, including showing the PDF as you type, is TeXworks.

> is there an overleaf-type program for your laptop?

You could have a look at TeXworks, from the TeX Users Group. It is a small footprint, Free, editor that shows the output at the same time.

I do this all the time :p

The only things you need are: a full texlive installation, I'd recommend that, and an LaTeX editor, eg TeXworks.

As @Pianoplunkster said, download the whole project from overleaf.

EDIT: additional info.