LaTeX

LaTeX is a popular type-setting system to create technical and scientific documentation.

To start using LaTeX, you need to download the engine

• MiKTeX (Windows)

• MacTeX (Mac)

Free LaTeX Editors

• Eclipse. You can choose any variant of Eclipse that you want but I have personally tried Eclipse Classic and Eclipse IDE for C/C++. You then need to install TeXlipse to link LaTeX with Eclipse.

• Notepad++. See this link on how to link LaTeX with Notepad++.

• TeXShop (Mac)

BibLaTeX

• Getting Started with BibLaTeX

• The biblatex package documentation

Reference Managers

• JabRef

• Mendeley

Free PDF Viewers

• SumatraPDF. When you convert your LaTeX source to PDF, this editor will automatically refresh its content without having to close the PDF file. If your are using Acrobat Reader, you need to close the program first, and then relaunch to view the latest edit.

Collaborative LaTeX Tools

• Overleaf - online collaborative LaTeX editor

• ShareLaTeX - online collaborative LaTeX editor

• TrackChanges - offline collaborative editing of LaTeX documents

Resources

• Text Processing using LaTeX - University of Cambridge

• Beamer theme gallery

• LaTeX templates for journals, CVs, resumes, presentations, etc

Graphics

• PGFPlots: A LaTeX package to create plots (examples included in the gallery)

• LaTeXDraw: A graphical drawing editor for LaTeX

• Gnuplot: a portable command-line driven graphing utility

Other Tools related to LaTeX

• Cryptocode: LaTeX package for typesetting pseudocode and cryptographic games

• Detexify: draw a symbol to know its corresponding command in LaTeX

• LaTexiT: LaTeX equation editor for Mac

• Convert LaTeX to Microsoft Word by GrindEQ - not free but can be used 10 times for free.

• Ghostscript: an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF

• GSView: a graphical interface for Ghostscript

How to ...

• convert Microsoft Excel charts as PDF

• crop PDF file: use PDF Scissors

• use Gnuplot's output to use in LaTeX documents

• use Mendeley to generate BibTeX files

History (yyyy-mm-dd):

• 2022-10-28: Added Cryptocode

• 2020-11-25: Added resources to Beamer themes and LaTeX templates

• 2020-06-19: Added Reference Managers list, and how to use Mendeley to generate BibTeX files