LaTeX and writing resources
- LaTeX is the prime typesetting system for mathematics. It is/can be/ installed on every platform. It works from command line on Unix, in desktop environments such as in MikTeX, and with other WYSIWYG or WYSIWYM environments such as lyx, and cloud environments such as Overleaf.
- Various packages enhance LaTeX and allow to include graphics,
bibliography in proper format, url, tables, framed boxes, color,
and so on. You can also include your own definitions. Beware of name
clashes between the different packages and your own. Less is
sometimes more.
- Indispensable packages are: graphicx (or other), xcolor (or other).
- Other useful packages: fullpage, url links, listings, fullpage, framed, ulem.
- The end product is usually a file in *.pdf format, but you should maintain also the source files *.tex and all the original graphics files.
- Short bibliography can be assembled at the end of a paper. For anything other than that, you should use BibTeX, and your bibliography database file. A useful package for managing BibTeX database is jabref, but you can also edit the database *.bib file by hand.
Just Do It
- Generic homework solution template and
generic template in pdf
Requires graphicx, xcolor, and definitions.sty (included)
- Expanded
NUMERICALtemplate for
Numerical Analysis classes MTH 4/55X and MTH 65X: zip and
pdf file.
Requires graphicx, xcolor, and other packages, plus definitions.sty (included)
- Plot template PLOTtemplate for including figures and plots, with MATLAB code; see also its output in PLOTtemplate.pdf