New Members ⇒ LateX starter

[Grimshaw]

Hello people,

I'm an absolute beginner of LateX. I've merely touched the program, but am I hoping to get a good grip in the end. I'll be using LateX for Mathematical essay's, since MS word is just hopeless in that area.

If anyone knows any fairly accessible starter tutorials, that would be great.

Greatings,

Chris

[localghost]

You did a very good choice regarding the unsurpassed capabilities of LaTeX in mathematical typesetting. For the present you can take a look at lshort and l2tabu to get a good start. The CTAN Catalogue offers some more very useful documents. Since standard LaTeX is extended by many packages, the servers of the CTAN provide not only the packages themselves but also their documentations.

So, have fun and above all success with this typesetting system. In case of occurring problems, feel free to ask and we will see what we can do. Beside the moderators there are many active members in this board trying their best to give help.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Chris,

welcome to this forum!

Since you intend to write mathematical texts with LaTeX some math docs will be useful for you, have a look at: Mathematics with LaTeX. The Mathmode document is very recommendable, and since amsmath is quasi standard regarding maths you should look at its documentation too.

Stefan