LaTeX material you may use for formatting some of your assignments

  • A LaTeX plugin for Eclipse, suggested by David Warde-Farley.

  • The MikTeX Project.

  • The TeXShop Project, for Mac, suggested by David Warde-Farley.

  • The TeXNicCenter.

  • Here is an example of a LaTeX file, which emphasizes on editing equations. You'll need this extensively for editing the first assignment.
    • To compile this file, use latex file.tex. The result of this compilation is file.dvi. To view a .dvi file, you can use xdvi.

    • Use dvips -Ppdf file.dvi to convert the .dvi file to a .ps one. Note that the -Ppdf is optional, but it's useful when you don't want an ugly .pdf file! (Try it without it and see the difference.)

    • Use ps2pdf file.ps to convert the .ps file to a .pdf one.