\$\LaTeX\$ instructions

[apelly]

Can anyone recommend a site with a \$\LaTeX\$ tutorial please?

If you preview your post the latex doesn't appear to render, so there's no real way to experiment without creating an actual post. I fear I'll look the fool many times before I have the hang of it.

[HAL-42b]

Found this basic tutorial: http://fluidmind.org/articles/typesetting-equations/
Can be used as sandbox.

Another quick reference: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference

[ECEdesign]

LaTeX is a free download and you can create documents with it, its also a good place to practice.  There are many tutorials I forgot where I saw them but there is like a series of 13 youtube videos that get you up to speed in an hour or so.

[apelly]

Another quick reference: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-basic-tutorial-and-quick-reference

Nice. Thanks.

[rsjsouza]

Nice, apelly! Now I can talk about \$\mu F\$, \$\beta\$ software or \$\gamma\$  rays!

I am pretty sure it still won't get me automatically the solution to \$\int_{x=0}^1 e^{-x^2}\$

(edit: uh-oh... Fail! How to enable \$\LaTeX\$ ?)
(edit2: I got it!)

[apelly]

Don't thank me. I think it was MatthewEveritt that talked Dave into enabling it with mathjax. This looks like the original thread: LaTex for EEVBlog

It does seem very modern, all this elegant presentation stuff.

[BloodyCactus]

there are several free PDF books for latex around, that have been made legally available.

[bson]

How do you write wt (omega*t) in MathJax?  \$\omega t\$ doesn't seem to work.

$$\cos(\theta)+\sin(2\omega t)$$

[Andy Watson]

\$\omega t \$   \ $ \omega t \ $
\$\Omega \$   \ $ \Omega \ $
remove the space between \ and $

[bson]

Ah, very cool.  It's just the preview that doesn't work for using backslash-$...

[ralphrmartin]

Try this one.

https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf