Help with Latex: What Program to Download?

[evinda]

Hello! (Wave)

I have to write a text in latex.. (Nerd)

Do you have any suggestions, which program I should download ? (Thinking)

 

[Ackbach]

That depends. If you just want to get your feet wet, check out ShareLaTeX. You just sign up for an account, and you don't need to install any software. It actually has a decent feature set, with vim keybindings. You have to pay for Google Drive or Dropbox integration, though.

Next alternative, if you want to go deeper: install LaTeX on your computer (plain vanilla TeX Live for Linux, MiKTeX for Windows, and MacTex for Macintosh). If you're on Windows, you will also need GhostScript and GhostView. Then I would install TeX Studio (Windows, Mac or Linux) for your editor.

Don't forget a good reference book - I like Math Into $\LaTeX$, by George Gratzer.

 

[alyafey22]

That depends. If you just want to get your feet wet, check out ShareLaTeX.

Highly recommended.

 

[evinda]

That depends. If you just want to get your feet wet, check out ShareLaTeX. You just sign up for an account, and you don't need to install any software.

Highly recommended.

So, is it free, if I just want to write a lecture slide? (Thinking)

 

[Ackbach]

So, is it free, if I just want to write a lecture slide? (Thinking)

Everything I just recommended is free, except the Google Drive and/or Dropbox integration of ShareLaTeX.

It sounds to me like ShareLaTeX is the way to go. You can fairly quickly use one of their templates to do what you need, I should think.

 

[alyafey22]

I wrote the following lecture using sharelatex.

 

[evinda]

I wrote the following lecture using sharelatex.

It looks nice! (Smile)