LaTeX

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents. Most of you probably have some familiarity with LaTeX from your Master's Theses.

We may want to build some PDF documents throughout the course using LaTeX - so let's install it.

Department Managed Laptops

Latex can be install from the Software Center. Search for "Mactex" on Mac and "TeXLive" won Windows and install the most recent version.

LaTeX Install for Mac

We again install from Homebrew. Enter the following into the terminal:

brew install --cask mactex

LaTeX Install for Linux

LaTeX can be installed from the terminal by entering the following command and pressing Return:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Check everything went according to plan:

tex --version

which gives the following output:

TeX 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2021)
kpathsea version 6.3.3
Copyright 2021 D.E. Knuth.
There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.

LaTeX Install for Windows

Unfortunately, we can't use winget for installation.

Please download the TeXLive Exe and run it. Follow the instructions given.