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LaTeX Help


LaTeX is a macro package for TeX. The department version is Latex2e. Older (LaTeX version 2.09) documents should be o.k. with this newer version, but there may be occasional problems.

A tutorial The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e is available as a postscript document.

A another good place to get help on LaTeX is at the University of Pennsylvania.

The TeX and Latex Catalog

A catalogue of TeX and Latex resources is available from CTAN, the Comprehensive Tex Archive Network.

Scientific Word and Scientific Workplace

Scientific word is a commercial WYSIWIG processor for LaTeX. The program uses its own macro files which must be present for the file to be processed. These should be on our system so that Sci Word documents will latex in the normal way.