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Thinking of using LaTeX? Good thinking! Paul (former HTA) thinks learning LaTeX was one of the best investments he's made as a CS major, and Hideaki (former grad TA) claims "you owe it to yourself as a CS student to learn it." The current TA staff agrees wholeheartedly. So if it's your first time, welcome!

This book is a great resource and reference, but it is lengthy. Fear not, you only really need to read a few of its chapters to know 90% of all the work you'll ever do in LaTeX.

If you are on a SunLab machine, you can run kile, a great editor specially crafted for LaTeX. From kile you can typeset and preview your document, as well as lookup symbols and insert them dynamically.

For Mac users, TeXShop is a great editor for the same reasons: you can typeset at the press of a button, store macros, and more.

Finally, we provide a blank template file that takes care of most of the scaffolding required to get a LaTeX document running, from here you simply fill in your answers and typeset them.

Specific to CS127

There are a few specific snags to keep track of when doing documents for CS127:

Word

Since Word is WYSIWYG, you'll likely notice problems as they come along. That being said, if you've never used Word for math before, you might wonder how to get these symbols. You can use Equation Editor.

demonstration of Word's equation editor