Howdy. Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need to use latex. Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up? Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in textmate specifically.
Do you have to be a nerd to be able to use it?
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
Thomas,
www.tug.org is the website for the tex users group. There are a couple tutorials there: http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/ http://www.tug.org/tutorials/lshort/lshort.pdf
You can also google for latex tutorial and gets tons of them.
Using TM one easy way to go is to create a document using one of the latex templates. Try the article template. Save it and press cmd-R
You can modify the \title{} and \author{} commands and then try typing some stuff below \section{Introduction}
You can start to explore a bit more with the Latex Bundle menu to see formatting options.
Drag and drop a picture of pdf diagram into the document to see how figures are included in a document.
Brad
On 8/2/07, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) oblivious@subtlegradient.com wrote:
Howdy. Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need to use latex. Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up? Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in textmate specifically.
Do you have to be a nerd to be able to use it?
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
Latex does not come pre-installed on your mac. If it cannot find pdflatex that means that you either haven't installed it, or you have installed it but haven't updated your PATH environment variable to point to the directory containing all the latex commands.
Brad
On 8/2/07, Tony Crockford tonyc@boldfish.co.uk wrote:
On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:31, Brad Miller wrote:
Using TM one easy way to go is to create a document using one of the latex templates. Try the article template. Save it and press cmd-R
I get a cannot find pdflatex error.
what should I have done first?
;)
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
On 8/2/07, Tony Crockford tonyc@boldfish.co.uk wrote:
On 2 Aug 2007, at 16:31, Brad Miller wrote:
Using TM one easy way to go is to create a document using one of the latex templates. Try the article template. Save it and press cmd-R
I get a cannot find pdflatex error.
what should I have done first?
;)
Installing LaTeX. Info here: http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Ekoch/texshop/installing.html.
-- Kai (http://kaivonfintel.org)
On Aug 2 2007, at 16:05, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:
Howdy. Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need to use latex. Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up? Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in textmate specifically.
Do you have to be a nerd to be able to use it?
As Brad mentioned, lshort is really useful. I read that and produced my first LaTeX document in an afternoon.
For TM's LaTeX bundle, be sure to watch Haris' screencasts available on his blog:
http://skiadas.dcostanet.net/afterthought/category/mathematics/latex/
There's a bit of an initial learning curve, but think about it, would you rather write your documents in TextMate or Word (shudder)? ;)
Good luck and happy TeXing!
Best, Mark
On Aug 2, 2007, at 09:36, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
On Aug 2 2007, at 16:05, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:
Howdy. Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need to use latex. Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up? Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in textmate specifically.
Do you have to be a nerd to be able to use it?
As Brad mentioned, lshort is really useful. I read that and produced my first LaTeX document in an afternoon.
I'd also check out Essential LaTeX++ at e.g. <http://noodle.med.yale.edu/latex/essential.pdf
, which isn't as in-depth as lshort.
Hi Thomas
Since TextMate seems to be like 80% LaTeX users. I feel a burning need to use latex. Can one of you LaTeX gurus condescend to learn me what's up? Maybe a few links to how to get started with latex and latex in textmate specifically.
I have written an article on my blog that specifically shows how to setup LaTeX and TextMate:
http://plesslweb.ch/2007/04/02/setting-up-latex-on-mac-os-x/
Cheers, Christian
-- Christian Plessl christian@plesslweb.ch http://plesslweb.ch
I have written an article on my blog that specifically shows how to setup LaTeX and TextMate:
http://plesslweb.ch/2007/04/02/setting-up-latex-on-mac-os-x/
Cheers, Christian
Your blog is very helpful for beginners to get started. You should change the pdf viewer recommendation to Skim, though. PDFView is no longer supported and its developer recommends Skim (which is quite wonderful).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app
Jenny
-
Adam R. Maxwell -
Brad Miller -
Jenny Harrison -
Kai von Fintel -
Mark Eli Kalderon -
Plessl Christian -
Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) -
Tony Crockford