What do you use to type up formulas and such

[Wesleytf]

I much prefer putting all my work into a computer where I can see it and manipulate it rather easily post-facto. It is rather cumbersome to use word for this; is there any free program that allows copy-paste into word of fraction/intergration/limit/etc type stuff?

 

[DavidSnider]

$$\LaTeX$$?

 

[Wesleytf]

$$\LaTeX$$?

fair enough... I'm actually downloading that right now(it's huge); care to give me a brief overview of how to work with it?

 

[boboYO]

I liked this tutorial.

http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/

 

[Santa1]

http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf

is a must!