LaTeX for Public Health and MedicinePractical Latex for Public Health and Medicine was written --- and this web page created --- in order to help public health and medical scientists, research analysts, graduate students, and scientific writers learn how to use LaTeX to
professionally typeset their scientific and technical documents.
LaTeX is a freely available, high-quality typesetting system, with
features designed for the production of technical and scientific
documentation, especially that involving mathematical notation. LaTeX
is well established: it has been around since 1994, and TeX (the
underlying program) since the 1980s. LaTeX is the de facto
standard for the communication and publication of scientific
documents. It is widely used by mathematicians, physicists,
statisticians, engineers, and other scientists and academicians
throughout the world.
Unfortunately, LaTeX has not caught on in the public health and
medical community, although this is slowly changing. The Internet and
the World Wide Web has enabled and accelerated the collaborative
development, improvement, and dissemination of open source
software. LaTeX is now easily installed and implemented on all major
computer operating systems. LaTeX is especially powerful for long
documents, reports, and doctoral theses. With a little patience and
practice, you too can be LaTeXing.
I hope you find this site helpful. Please send me feedback and
suggestions on how to improve the content. I am especially
interested learning about LaTeX tools, samples, and templates
for public health and medical writers. External links
| 