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Tags: writing, LaTeX
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**... and related tools.** Somewhat organized, but organization is not my strong suit. If you have a link you think I should include please [email me](mailto:jjasbins@calpoly.edu).
## Quick Start
- [The LaTeX Project](https://www.latex-project.org/)
- [Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes (Overleaf)](https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes)
- CTAN (Comprehensive Tex Archive Network) [Packages](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/)
- CTAN [graphicx](https://ctan.org/pkg/graphicx?lang=en)
- [Overleaf - Documentation Home](https://www.overleaf.com/learn)
- [MiKTeX project page](https://miktex.org/)
## Just because
$V_P=\sqrt{\frac{K+\frac{4}{3}\mu}{\rho}}$
## Intro
- [LaTeX Beginner's Guide](https://latexguide.org/)
- [LaTeX Cookbook](https://latex-cookbook.net/) Collection of LaTeX Recipes
- [LaTeX undergrad math](https://tug.ctan.org/info/undergradmath/undergradmath.pdf)
- Overleaf [Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes](https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes)
## Templates
- https://pascalmichaillat.org/design/
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## What is LaTeX?
- The [LaTeX Project](https://www.latex-project.org/)
## Getting LaTeX
- [Get LaTeX](https://www.latex-project.org/get/), from the The [LaTeX Project](https://www.latex-project.org/)
## Learning LaTeX
- [Learn Latex](https://www.learnlatex.org/)
- [LaTeX Tutorial](https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/)
- [The TeX Frequently Asked Questions List](https://texfaq.org/)
- [LaTeX Base Reference](https://docs.latexbase.com/)
- https://fanpu.io/blog/2023/latex-tips/
- [LaTeX for Tabletop](https://vladar.bearblog.dev/latex-for-tabletop/)
- [HackerNews Comment Thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37547099)
- [Some LaTeX mistakes](https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/02/15/top-latex-mistakes/)
### Symbols Cheat Sheets
- [LaTeX Tutorials](https://latextutorials.com/)
- [Lots of LaTeX math symbols](https://www.math.uci.edu/~xiangwen/pdf/LaTeX-Math-Symbols.pdf)
- http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
- https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/amsmath/
### Presentations (Making in LaTeX)
- https://x.com/overleaf/status/1893586623062806697
- https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer
## Interesting LaTeX Stuff
- [Annotated LaTeX Equations](https://github.com/synercys/annotated_latex_equations)
- very cool
- [LaTeX Cookbook
Collection of LaTeX recipes](https://latex-cookbook.net/)
- [LaTeX Cookbook --> Book!](https://latex-cookbook.net/about/)
- [HackerNews Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29672872)
- [LATEX INPUT FOR IMPATIENT SCHOLARS](https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars/)
- [HackerNews Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131928)
- Make your webpage look like LaTeX: [LaTeX.css](https://latex.vercel.app/)
- LaTeX → HTML [LaTeX2HTML](https://www.latex2html.org/) (For Linux). Otherwise might use [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/)?
## LaTeX Help Sites
- https://latex-tutorial.com/latex-appendix/
- https://latex-tutorial.com/documentclass-latex/
- Force image to appear in its section: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32598/force-latex-image-to-appear-in-the-section-in-which-its-declared
- Multifile LaTeX projects: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Multi-file_LaTeX_projects
- Report preparation in LaTeX [Structuring Your Document](https://edbennett.github.io/latex-tutorial/02-structure/)
- [Insert blank page](https://zhiganglu.com/post/latex-insert-blank-page/) with or without numbering
- Qt error: I confirm that for a "all users" installation of Windows 11, the miktex --admin packages update worked for me (in a cmd with administrator privileges). {remove --admin}
Turns out there were a few packages to update, some that looked pretty basic.
## Editors
- [MiKTeX](https://miktex.org/)
- bibliography info: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/558182/simplest-way-to-add-a-bibliography-using-a-bib-file
- [Setzer](https://www.cvfosammmm.org/setzer/)
- Setzer on [GitHub](https://github.com/cvfosammmm/Setzer)
- Online: [Overleaf](https://www.overleaf.com/)
- [Setzer](https://www.cvfosammmm.org/setzer/#carousel-target4). Desktop editor - Linux only(?)
- [LyX](https://www.lyx.org/)
- [TeXworks](https://www.tug.org/texworks/)
- [Typst](https://typst.app/)
- https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/comemo/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222356
- [Texifier](https://www.texifier.com/)
## Chemical Formalas
$$ \ce{Na2SO4 ->[H2O] Na+ + SO4^2-}
$$
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/142865/arrows-chemical-equations
## Bibliographies
It seems the most *"modern"* format is now Biblatex.
- [How to use Biblatex with LyX](https://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex)
- [Learn how to create a bibliography with Bibtex and Biblatex](https://latex-tutorial.com/tutorials/bibtex/)
- [DOI 2 BIB](https://doi2bib.org/)
Scholars
https://www.scholars.io/
plugins [Zotero Documentation]
https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins
creating_bibliographies [Zotero Documentation]
https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies
Mendeley - Reference Management Software
https://www.mendeley.com/
JabRef - Free Reference Manager - Stay on top of your Literature
https://www.jabref.org/
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
https://www.zotero.org/
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 7: Zotero, redesigned
https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-7/
LaTeX/Bibliographies with biblatex and biber - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Bibliographies_with_biblatex_and_biber
## Related
- [Asciidoc](https://asciidoc.org/)
- [Welcome to GNU TeXmacs](http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html)
- [Makodo:](https://www.madoko.net/) *Write Beautiful Documents*
- [Papeeria: ](https://papeeria.com/) *LaTeX and Markdown online*. Integration with gnuplot?
- [Typeset](https://typeset.io/)
- [Manuscripts](https://www.manuscripts.io/about/)
- [Texblog](https://texblog.org/)
- [DOI-2-BIB](https://doi2bib.org/)
- [Credocs](https://www.creodocs.com/)
- [LaTeX Typesetting](https://latextypesetting.com/) and [LaTeX Templates](https://www.latextemplates.com/)
- ✳ [GNU TeXmacs](https://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html)
- [Learning TeXmacs](https://texmacs.org/tmweb/help/learn.en.html)
- [Monster WriterApp](https://www.monsterwriter.app/)
- [Tectonic Typesetting System](https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/) | [Github Developers Page](https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic).
- [Context](https://www.contextgarden.net/Main_Page) document processing system.
- [Typesetting Markdown – Part 1: Build Script](https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/05/22/typesetting-markdown-part-1/). Also see [Context](https://www.contextgarden.net/Main_Page) document processing system.
- [Lout](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout)
- [Typst](https://github.com/typst/typst)
- [Monsterwriter.app](https://www.monsterwriter.app/index.html)
- [Weasyprint](https://weasyprint.org/)
- [conTeXt](https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page)
- [Sile Typesetter](https://sile-typesetter.org/)
- [Curvenote](https://curvenote.com/) connect to Jupyter Notebooks(?)
- [Quarto](https://quarto.org/) → An open-source scientific and technical publishing system
## Pandoc "universal" document converter
- [Pandoc website](https://pandoc.org/index.html).
## Unsorted
- [Alignment of multiple variables in a linear system](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/144610/alignment-of-multiple-variables-in-a-linear-system)
- https://math-linux.com/latex-26/faq/latex-faq/article/latex-derivatives-limits-sums-products-and-integrals
- 2019 (Nature). [Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01796-1). Hacker News [discussion page](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019134>).
- https://www.physicsread.com/
- https://math-linux.com/latex-26/faq/latex-faq/article/latex-horizontal-space-qquad-hspace-thinspace-enspace
- https://latex-tutorial.com/latex-space/
- https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/latex/write
## Figure Making / Diagramming
- https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35918450
- https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/
- https://penrose.cs.cmu.edu/blog/v3
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746047
- https://tikz.dev/
## Groff
- https://stephenramsay.net/posts/groff-mom.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35971338
## MyST
- https://myst-tools.org/
- https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html
- https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/roles-and-directives.html#syntax-directives
- https://myst-tools.org/docs/spec
## Markdown
- https://github.com/marktext/marktext
- https://typora.io/
## Other
- https://ia.net/
## And Even More Links
Full guide to captions customization in LaTeX - LaTeX-Tutorial.com
https://latex-tutorial.com/caption-customization-latex/
LaTeX Templates - LaTeX for Beginners
https://www.latextemplates.com/latex-for-beginners
LaTeX - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
LaTeX.org - Index page
https://latex.org/forum/
Document Classes
https://latex.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=dd37f711c4898c353b15e9fde68bbd5b
LaTeX Beginner's Guide – Learning LaTeX
https://latexguide.org/
LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX recipes
https://latex-cookbook.net/
LaTeX Graphics with TikZ
https://tikz.org/
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX - lshort.pdf
https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
TeX Users Group (TUG)
https://www.tug.org/
TeX Resources on the Web - TeX Users Group
https://www.tug.org/interest.html#latexpkgwriting
typography - Alternatives to LaTeX - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/120271/alternatives-to-latex
Open Research Collaboration and Publishing - Authorea
https://www.authorea.com/
Languages - Wiki
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Languages
Wiki
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
Welcome to GNU TeXmacs (FSF GNU project)
https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
The Heirloom Documentation Tools: nroff, troff, dpost, etc.
https://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html
Mom - Macros for GNU troff: Reflections on GNU troff (groff)
https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-03.html
Typst: Compose papers faster
https://typst.app/
LuaTeX
https://www.luatex.org/
print-css.rocks - PrintCSS CSS Paged Media tutorial and information
https://www.print-css.rocks/tools
OpTeX
https://petr.olsak.net/optex/
Vivliostyle — Enjoy CSS Typesetting!
https://vivliostyle.org/