Physics LaTeX Workshop
- D Foxgrover
- Jay Tasson
- Marty Baylor
- Barry Costanzi
Welcome!
This is the hub of the Carleton Physics LaTeX workshop. This wiki page contains lots of information to help you get acquainted with LaTeX and resources to help you once you get the basics down. Rather than finding a compiler and downloading packages that will work on your computer, this tutorial has you work with Overleaf, a free online compiler. You can create projects, store them in the cloud, and get immediate feedback on your work with the online compiler. After you create an Overleaf account, you should begin by looking at and working through the Getting Started with LaTeX guide in this wiki. Once you work through the exercises in the Getting Started guide, you should be able to use any of the bare-bones templates for the task you need to accomplish. These templates have many of the initial document codes, but are otherwise blank so that you can begin adding text.
Carleton LaTeX guides
Getting started with LaTeX
Math typesetting guide
Text typesetting guide
Citation guide
Font guide
Some Carleton templates
PHYS 228 Lab Writeup
- Overleaf Blank Template
- Example ( PDF / Overleaf )
Essay
Physics Comps Paper
- Tex Template
- Overleaf Template
- Carleton-modified aip.bst file that includes annotations in the bibliography
- Word Count Tool (URL / Sample Output)
Instructions: Navigate to the URL and upload your .tex file. The online tool will count each section separating out word counts in captions, footnotes, appendices, etc. separately . You can then add up the text in the sections manually, only including the values that should be included in the comps paper word count.
Math Problem Sets
Additional resources
There are many excellent LaTeX resources available at Carleton and on the Internet.
LaTeX Wikibook
The LaTeX Wikibook is an excellent (and very thorough!) guide to many features of LaTeX, ranging from the most basic commands to extremely advanced techniques. Highly recommended.
DeTeXify
This site can find the LaTeX command for hand-drawn math symbols. Great when you just can't remember how to make a φ!
TeX Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange is a network of sites where users can ask and answer questions. The TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange is a great resource for finding answers to both common and esoteric questions—but be careful! Not every answer is good!
A search engine is an invaluable resource for learning any new technology. Not sure how to typeset an integral? Baffled by a cryptic error message? Just Google it!
Your peers
You're not the only one using LaTeX at Carleton! Ask around. Someone has probably already had the same problem you do!
Questions? Problems with the site? Contact Marty Baylor or Bruce Duffy.