LaTeX
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The LaTeX typesetting system (pronounced "Lay-Tek" or "Lah-Tek") is widely used to produce well-formatted mathematical and scientific writing. With LaTeX, it is very easy to produce expressions like
Nearly every serious student of math and science will use LaTeX frequently. Through these web pages, you will learn much of what you'll need to express math and science like a pro.
Contents
Useful Codes
- Main article: LaTeX:Symbols
Fonts
Font families
- Roman (default): \textrm{...}
- Sans-serif: \textsf{...}
- Monospace (typewriter): \texttt{...}
Font sizes
To activate a font size, write '{\tiny{This text is tiny}}', for example.
- \tiny (5 pt.)
- \scriptsize (7 pt.)
- \footnotesize (8 pt.)
- \small (9 pt.)
- \normalsize (10 pt.)
- \large (12 pt.)
- \Large (14 pt.)
- \LARGE (18 pt.)
- \huge (20 pt.)
- \Huge (24 pt.)
Font styles
- Bold \textbf{...}
- Italics \textit{...}
- Slanted \textsl{...}
- Small capitals \textsc{...}
- Sans-serif \textsf{...}
- Monospace \texttt{...}
- Emphasis \emph{...}
See also
- Asymptote (graphics language for LaTeX)
External links
- AoPS LaTeX Help Index
- Wikipedia Article
- This is a useful site that will change LaTeX input into a PNG image.
