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Options for Doing LATEX on the Web and for Installing a TEX System on Your Own Computer Options for doing LATEX on the web and for installing a TEX system on your own computer 1. You can do LATEX on the web using (a) ShareLATEX at https://www.sharelatex.com/ You must first register by giving your e-mail address and creating a password. (b) SageMathCloud at https://cloud.sagemath.com/ You must first create an account at SageMathCloud, which is easy to do. After you have created an account, you might look at the YoUTube Video on how to use LATEX on SageMathCloud at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhnX3UtizI You may need to allow pop-ups in your browser for ShareLATEX and SageMathCloud. 2. To use LATEX on your personal computer, you need to install (a) A TEX distribution. Possibilities are i. MiKTeX for Windows at http://miktex.org/download ii. MacTeX for Macs at https://www.tug.org/mactex/ iii. Tex Live on Ubuntu or Debian Linux systems, install using the package manager (b) A text editor. I suggest Texmaker at http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/, which \is a free, modern and cross-platform LaTeX editor for linux, macosx and windows systems that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application." Cara Brosius rec- ommends another free cross-platform editor TeXworks at https://code.google.com/p/texworks/, which is \an environment for authoring TEX (LATEX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode- based, TEX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users." Of course, you want the version Texmaker or TeXworks for your oper- ating system. 1.
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