LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
Home Page: http://www.latex-project.org/
Distribution Specific Information: http://www.tug.org/tetex/
General Tutorials
Use
- Open an X11 terminal (if you do not use an X windows enabled terminal Maple will run in the command-line mode).
- TeXMaker is the LaTeX frontend.
- LaTeX is available from on almost every computer managed by DSC, to execute it type
latex filename.tex
pdflatex filename.tex
pslatex filename.tex
Missing Style Files
You may request TSG to install standard packages by emailingkpsewhich filename.styIf you have filename.ins, filename.sty can be generated by running:
kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME
latex filename.ins
