How to install Latex?
LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.
LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too much about the appearance of their documents but to concentrate on getting the right content.
What to install?
For using Latex you need bascially 3 components
1.A text editor for editing your LaTeX source files
2.The TEX/LATEX program for processing your LATEX source files into typeset PDF or DVI documents
3.A PDF/DVI viewer program for previewing and printing your documents
How to install in Ubuntu( or any Linux)?
1.Text Editor: 'Gedit', which comes by default in ubuntu.
2.Tex/Latex Program: 'texlive,gedit-latex-plugin' from synaptic package manager or from terminal
sudo apt-get install texlive gedit-latex-plugin
It will download basic subset of packages required.
3.Pdf viewer is available by default
Extra Packages.(not necessary for tomo)
Tex Users Group(TUG www.tug.org) who mainatain the software, release texlive-dvd yearly which contains a huge colllection of variety of packages. If you want to install texlive-full then do
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
You can also use some advanced editors developed specifically for Latex like texmaker, kile, winefish ...etc.
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