Install LaTeX
LaTeX is composed of many softwares working together. In order to use them easily, distributions exist : they combine all the needed tools in one big package. To work on your LaTeX source files, you will need to install a distribution and an editor.
Please install LaTeX before the course starts, so that we can directly dive into LaTeX during the course.
Install LaTeX for Windows
There are 2 steps :
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We recommend that you download and install the windows texlive version(install-tl-windows.exe) https://tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html. This is the distribution we will use during the class.
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Please also install a LaTeX editor : we suggest that you use the texmaker gui https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker. We will use this editor in class. There are other editors that could suit your needs.
Install LaTeX for MacOS
There are 2 steps :
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We recommend that you download and install the mac texlive version (called mactex) from : https://www.tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html
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Please also install a LaTeX editor : we suggest that you use the texmaker gui https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker. However, there are other editors that could suit your needs.
Install LaTeX with Linux
Debian / Ubuntu
LaTeX package can be directly installed into the system by running :
sudo apt install texlive-base
Please also install the texmaker gui https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker.
sudo apt install texmaker
Fedora and yum based distribution
yum install texlive-scheme-full
Download example files (optional)
You can download all the .tex files used in this course : https://github.com/epfllibrary/latex-examples/archive/master.zip