TeX Live 2024

TeX Live 2024 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.

Writing

• Overleaf
  • Overleaf documentation
  • Writefull
• Detexify
• LaTeX Project
  • Learn LaTeX
  • CTAN
  • TeX Live

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#TeXLive,#LaTeX,#Release,#Writing,#CTAN

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Write an Impactful Research Paper

I have been reading Write an Impactful Research Paper by Martins Zaumanis. This is a fascinating book, while I am not a graduate or even doing post grad work, this book is really informative.

The author is sharing lots of really useful hints and tips from personal experience of publishing, There is a link to both the publisher and the book below.

• Peer Recognized
  • Amazon link

I would recommend this book as part of your collection as there are also links to cheat sheets which when taken within the context of the book could be really useful. I say this as cheat sheets are a summary of what is in the book, so reading associated chapters does make sense.

As you are trying to get your research reviewed and published, then it is not worth cutting corners. You can print off the cheat sheets and display for reference.

If anyone is interested, then I can bring my copy to the STEM group, but if you want one, you need to buy your own.;

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#Books,#Publishing,#Research,#Paper,#Writing

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EdX LaTeX course update

I have nearly finished the course, however I seem to have gone past the deadline so my audit period has expired. I just need to complete the section on referencing, indexing and cross-referencing.

To be fair, I can do the above anyway, I do get a little mixed up on cross-referencing, so this section would have been useful for that.

I will get in touch to see if this can be extended for a week or so, so that I can complete.l

References

1. IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists
2. EdX
3. IITBombayX

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#Course,#LaTeX,#Writing,#Learning

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LaTeX : Course takeaway – Page Orientation

I am still undertaking the EdX LaTeX Course, however one of the useful takeaways so far for me is to use the pdflscape package rather than the lscape package.

I have made a video which illustrates the difference between the two.

Video

This is just basic usage but it should be enough to get started.

Links

• The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network

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#Writing,#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#pdflscape,'#lscape,#Portrait,#Landscape#PageOrientation

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EdX LaTeX course

I have signed up to the LaTeX course IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists [1] on the EdX website [2]. I have provided a link to university of Bombay for reference [3]

Looking at the course learning outcomes, I seem to know quite a lot already, however I need to improve how I organise and layout documents.

A while back I undertook an experiment on Acidity of Seawater and how this can be changed with eggshells. I want to go back to the write-up and make it look a much more professional, which I should be able to do with the help of this course.

Post for here

References

1. IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists
2. EdX
3. IITBombayX

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#Course,#LaTeX,#Writing,#Learning

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How to write your homework using LaTeX

This is another video on using LaTeX to write documents. Should be useful or interesting to anyone using or considering switching.

Links

• Overleaf
  • Overleaf documentation
  • Writefull
• LaTeX Project
  • Learn LaTeX
  • LaTeX Forum
  • CTAN
  • TeX Live
  • Detexify
  • MathJax
• tikz manual

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#LaTeX,#Writing,#Overleaf

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Scientific writing

So carrying on with a similar theme as yesterday, I found an interesting article posted to the Fediverse looking at Markdown vs. LaTeX for Scientific Writing

So am sharing here as it may be of interest.

Related Links

• Overleaf
  • Overleaf documentation
  • Writefull
• LaTeX Project
  • Learn LaTeX
  • LaTeX Forum
  • CTAN
  • TeX Live
  • Detexify
  • MathJax
  • Jabref
  • CiteDrive
  • Blog post – citation manager for Overleaf

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#Science,#Writing,#LaTeX,#Markdown,#Comparison

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Using LaTeX in Markdown.

There are a lot of platforms that use Markdown as the main way of helping writers format their text so it looks nice and conveys their message efficiently.

If you are a scientist, then you may want to include more specialist text, such as subscripts, formulae, etc within you text. Using laTeX is a good way to do this. Using MathJaX allows you to get the best of both worlds.

The article here How to use LaTeX in Markdown

Guides you through how to integrate LaTeX with Markdown.

Related Links

• Overleaf
  • Overleaf documentation
  • Writefull
• LaTeX Project
  • Learn LaTeX
  • LaTeX Forum
  • CTAN
  • TeX Live
  • Detexify
  • MathJax
  • Jabref
  • CiteDrive
  • Blog post – citation manager for Overleaf

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#Writing,#Markdown,#LaTeX,#MathJax,#Math,#Formulae,#Science

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