Joe Struss, Creative Services (ITS) Introduction to LaTeX Joe Struss, Creative Services (ITS) jastruss@iastate.edu http://css.ait.iastate.edu/Tex/
Who created TeX / LaTeX ? Tex - Created by Don Knuth LaTeX - a macro-language written in Tex Created by Leslie Lamport
Advantages of TeX / LaTeX Archive-able Free Software Does a Great Job with Mathematics
Disadvantages of TeX / LaTeX Scripting Language, not a WYSIWYG word processor Takes a little while to learn
Tex / LaTeX Web Sites TeX Users Group (TUG): http://www.tug.org/ Iowa State Unofficial TeX Page: http://css.ait.iastate.edu/Tex/
TeX / LaTeX Installation Tex / LaTeX Installation consists of two parts: Base code / Front end Windows: ProTeXt Macintosh: i-Installer / TUG
Wndows TeX / LaTeX Front Ends Windows Front Ends: WinShell (www.winshell.de) TeXnic Center (ProTeXt) TeXmaker (www.xm1math.net/texmaker/)
Macintosh TeX/LaTeX Front Ends Macintosh Front Ends TeXShop (www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/) iTeXMac (itexmac.sourceforge.net) Wikipedia LaTeX