New to LaTeX - Like it so far.

[BentwoodBlue]

I'm new to writing mathematical documents for my classroom in LaTeX. Right now I am using TeXShop to code my documents. Is there something better out there? Any other tips or recommendations from teachers/education people?

 

[ronswanson]

years

been using tex for a dozen years .. tried windows, linux, mac - i like texshop best. I usually get it by downloading the entire MacTex package.

 

[blipmusic]

Most plain text editors out there come with syntax highlighting for latex and build/type-setting hot keys if for some reason texshop doesn't suit you (I use sublime text 2 - I do miss some of the Textmate latex hot keys but I like sublime better as a general text editor).

Another tip is to go for xelatex (and more importantly utf-8 for text encoding) from the get go. I'm not sure why this isn't the default nowadays tbh. The nice microtype package isn't supported but in return you get to use the fontspec package which is fantastic.