LaTeX guides
- Andrew Gainer-Dewar
Owned by Andrew Gainer-Dewar
The Carleton LaTeX workshop offers several guides to help you get started using LaTeX.
Getting started with LaTeX
If you've never used LaTeX before, this is the place to start. This guide will walk you through everything you need to do to get started, including:
- What LaTeX is (and isn't!)
- How to use LaTeX on your computer
- How to use the Problem Set template to produce your first document
Math typesetting guide
Once you know how to use LaTeX to produce a document, you'll want to do some math. The Math Typesetting Guide will show you how to get started, with information on the following topics:
- How to put LaTeX into math mode
- How to write mathematical expressions involving fancy symbols, brackets, and more
- How to format multi-line and aligned equations
- How to format matrices and other arrays
- How to format operators like sin and log
Text typesetting guide
LaTeX also has facilities for a variety of text-formatting tasks. The Text Typesetting Guide will walk you through several of these, including:
- How to format text to be italic, bold,
monospace, and other typefaces - How to typeset inline and block quotations
- How to use special symbols, including accented characters
- How to section your documents
- How to produce various kinds of lists
- How to produce nicely-formatted theorems and proofs
- How to handle cross-references automatically
- How to typeset professional-quality tables
- How to include images in your document
- How to define commands to extend LaTeX to meet your needs
Citation guide
LaTeX includes an advanced bibliography processor called BibLaTeX. The Citation Guide will show you how to use it to include citations in your documents.