Evans Library Online Research Support Workshops: A 1 1 LTEX 2# a document preparation system
[email protected] download @ cs.fit.edu/. William David Shoaff March 3 & 4, 2015 Contents History 1 Is LATEX hard to use? 2 Cools examples 2 Writing TEX&LATEX 2 File Extensions A minimal file 2 Standard stuff 3 LATEX does math 3 LATEX does lists 3 LATEX does tables 4 Gratuitous examples 4 Separate content from form 8 LATEX packages 8 Friendly tools 24 Additional resources 24 History Don Knuth received the 1974 Turing ‘In the late 1970s, Donald Knuth was revising the second volume of his award for his major contributions to multivolume magnum opus The Art of Computer Programming, got the the analysis of algorithms and the galleys, looked at them, and said (approximately) “blecch”! He had design of programming languages, and just received his first samples from the new typesetting system of the in particular for his contributions to the “art of computer programming” publisher’s, and its quality was so far below that of the first edition of through his well-known books in a Volume 2 that he couldn’t stand it.’ Just what is TEX continuous series by this title. Leslie Lamport received the 2013 TEX, written mostly by Knuth, was released in 1978. The current Turing Award for advances in reliability and consistency of computing systems. version of TEX is 3.14159265. To add a level of abstraction to TEX, Leslie Lamport wrote LATEX and released it in 1984.LATEX allows a writer to concentrate on con- tent and structure rather than formatting details.