LaTeX Links
LaTeX [lay:tech] is a high quality typesetting package that is extremely well-suited for scientific writing. It allows anyone with access to a computer and printer to produce professional and easily maintainable documents. It is flexible enough to produce almost anything: shopping lists, business letters, flashcards, essays, dissertations, and even books. The learning curve is a bit steep if you don’t have any programming or typesetting experience, but the end result is well worth it.
Style
- Some LaTeX Comments :: Excellent LaTeX style guidelines for typesetting mathematics. Provides rules for spacing, equation layout, fonts, etc.
LaTeX and Emacs
- AUCTeX :: AUCTeX is the package for writing LaTeX documents in Emacs. It provides syntax highlighting, math-mode shortcuts for common letters and symbols, integrated compilation and previewing, and commonly needed functions for manipulating document structure.
- Inverse Search with Xdvi(k) :: Explains how to use “inverse search” in dvi previews with Emacs and xdvi.
Mathematics
- Short Math Guide for LaTeX :: an excellent summary of the essential features for typesetting mathematics. This is without a doubt my primary reference.
- AMS-LaTeX :: LaTeX extensions (amscls, amsmath, etc.) from the American Mathematical Society. These are the standard packages for to producing mathematical formulae in scientific literature and are included by default with virtually all LaTeX distributions.
Fonts and Symbols
- A Survey of Free Math Fonts for TeX and LaTeX :: A large list of available fonts for LaTeX. This list includes a sample of each font with both text and mathematics. It contains a nice discussion of matching text fonts with math fonts and which fonts are good for different situations (e.g., for presentations).
- The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List :: A list of thousands of symbols from various commonly available packages.
- The LaTeX Font Catalogue :: A large list of available fonts for LaTeX.
LaTeX Basics
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e :: one of the definitive guides (PDF, 145 pages)
- An introduction to LaTeX :: a quick example with many links, from the LaTeX Project
- The Yossi Gil LaTeX Guide for Graduate Students
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to LaTeX (PDF)
BibTeX
- BibTool :: A powerful command-line utility to manipulate BibTeX files. I maintain all of my references in a single research bib file and then use bibtool to automatically extract the references needed for a particular paper.
- Natbib reference sheet :: natbib is an excellent and very flexible bibliography style and this is a nice reference sheet for using it.
- Everything you always wanted to know about BibTeX :: Piet van Oostrum (PDF)
LaTeX on Windows
- MiKTeX :: an excellent LaTeX implementation for Windows
- TeXnicCenter :: a free, open source LaTeX frontend for Windows