latex help

Hedgecutter

Is there an easy way to learn latex, I need to post equations on physics and maths and scanning them and up loading these takes ages and then people can read my writing.

Pherekydes

There's a latex thread stickied at the top.

Bottleopener

www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins has a good tutorial. I learned mostly through trial and error though!

TheBody

Bottleopener wrote: »

www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins has a good tutorial. I learned mostly through trial and error though!

I think everybody did

The funny thing is that I know FAR more about Latex than microsoft word.

Hedgecutter

Thanks guys

equivariant

Hedgecutter wrote: »

Thanks guys

If you are going to be posting the odd question on forum like boards, learning to use the latex system is a bit of overkill. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of latex and think that everyone should learn it at some stage. However, for posting on boards, just click quote to see how to post the following

subscripts/superscripts
[latex] f_{i}(x) = x^2 [/latex]

fractions, roots and integrals

[latex] \int_{0}^{1} \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+1}} dx [/latex]

That will allow you to post a lot of basic mathemtical stuff. You can learn all the stuff about installing and compiling the full latex system later, I think