feo
Honorary Master
OK, I'm bust typing out a project with lots of mathematical formulae and stuff with LaTeX and it's the first time I'm using it. Anyone here familiar with it and willing to help?
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feo
Honorary Master
huh? 
It's a serious question.
It's a serious question.
vinesh
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have you tried:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics
and have a look at this : http://www.latexeditor.org/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics
and have a look at this : http://www.latexeditor.org/
feo
Honorary Master
It's cool, I read through the Guide and it's coming along nicely.
Now I gotta learn how to draw a table in LaTeX.
sigh
Now I gotta learn how to draw a table in LaTeX.
sigh
feo
Honorary Master
OK blueghost and icyrus, I have a bunch of equations that must be numbered and appear below each other and have to be aligned at the equals sign, I've done that but they're centred, I need them to be aligned at the left margin, any ideas?
Have look at this should have all u need
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
feo
Honorary Master
^^ Found that yesterday.
Skeptik
Banned
Have you tried OpenOffice for windows? It reportedly has a better formualr interface than MS Word.
feo
Honorary Master
@Skeptik, the stuff I'm doing now must be done using LaTeX. Thank for the links guys. 
My Latex is a bit rusty but you could try to use \hspace{} or \hspace*{} - I think that you can specify a negative distance like -10mm. Maybe you can try that before each of your formulas i.e. \hspace*{-20mm} \cos 2\theta etc.
This is how to align formulae.
It is necessary to ensure that the = signs are aligned with one another. In LaTeX, such a formula is typeset using the eqnarray* environment. The above example was obtained by typing the lines
\begin{eqnarray*}
\cos 2\theta & = & \cos^2 \theta - \sin^2 \theta \\
& = & 2 \cos^2 \theta - 1.
\end{eqnarray*}
Note the use of the special character & as an alignment tab. When the formula is typeset, the part of the second line of the formula beginning with an occurrence of & will be placed immediately beneath that part of the first line of the formula which begins with the corresponding occurrence of &. Also \\ is used to separate the lines of the formula.
This is how to align formulae.
It is necessary to ensure that the = signs are aligned with one another. In LaTeX, such a formula is typeset using the eqnarray* environment. The above example was obtained by typing the lines
\begin{eqnarray*}
\cos 2\theta & = & \cos^2 \theta - \sin^2 \theta \\
& = & 2 \cos^2 \theta - 1.
\end{eqnarray*}
Note the use of the special character & as an alignment tab. When the formula is typeset, the part of the second line of the formula beginning with an occurrence of & will be placed immediately beneath that part of the first line of the formula which begins with the corresponding occurrence of &. Also \\ is used to separate the lines of the formula.
It's cool, I read through the Guide and it's coming along nicely.
Now I gotta learn how to draw a table in LaTeX.
sigh
LaTeX > *
If you don't want to learn LaTeX, but you want professional looking documents with equations:
http://www.lyx.org/
If you want to learn some LaTeX and you're using GNU/Linux:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
If you want to learn some LaTeX and you're using Winblowz (you'll need MikTeX):
http://www.texniccenter.org/home.html