Latex Resources

  • ShareLatex

    Online collaborative LaTeX system

  • Overleaf

    Online collaborative LaTeX system

  • Cameron Wright, Technical writing tools for engineers and scientists: Latex versus business-oriented word processors

    This is a link to an article in a journal that requires a subscription. Free full-text access to the document is available on campus; only the abstract is available off campus.

  • Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna, and Elisabeth Schlegl, The not so short introduction to Latex

  • Michael Downes, Short Math Guide for Latex

  • Keith Reckdahl, Using imported graphics in Latex and pdfLatex

  • Dario Taraborelli, The Beauty of Latex

    From the introduction:
    ...Latex is a free typesetting system that allows you to focus on content without bothering about the layout: the software takes care of the actual typesetting, structuring and page formatting, producing documents of astonishing elegance...
    ... There are several reasons why one should prefer Latex to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them (not to mention that Latex is free). There is still a further reason that definitely convinced me to abandon MS Word when I wrote my dissertation: you will never be able to produce professionally typeset and well-structured documents using most WYSIWYG word processors...

  • Dario Taraborelli, Accessing OpenType font features in Latex
  • Charles Staats III, Asymptote tutorial

    Asymptote is a vector graphics language that provides a mathematical framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for overall document consistency, yielding the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX provides for scientific text.