Introduction to Latex and Lyx - Part 1 of 5

This an introduction to Latex math commands and Latex editors. The files needed for this tutorial can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bvkbbe

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[capoman1]

Hey everybody, wanted to jump in and reply to all of the comments that I have been getting on this video series.

To all of the people thanking me for getting them to be able to begin with Latex; YOU'RE WELCOME!!! That was the point. And I did this video as an assignment in a math course; I had never even USED Latex before, let alone PRONOUNCED it!

And to all of the commenters on my pronunciation of Latex: I hope it bugs the shit out of you and continues to! Haha =)

[duck24x]

Two days ago I submitted yet another MS Word & Mathtype paper to a peer-reviewed math journal. The editor requested a LaTeX version. So I clicked on the Convert Equations feature in MS Word-Mathtype. It produced 96 pages of stuff that I sent to the editor & a math friend The math friend sent me back the compiled version of all my TeX code. It looked hideous. Nothing like my original MS Word & MT file.

[capoman1]

@duck24x: I appreciate you watching and commenting on my video here. I just did this video to give my classmates an alternative to MS Word, Mathtype, or Equation Editor. And my professors were requesting the Latex format for online homeworks twice a week.

As far as the "Word vs Latex" or "Mathtype vs Latex" argument, it only comes down to preference and necessity. I needed this format for my classes. And Linux users CAN'T use Word; so they MUST use Latex!

Hope you got Lyx installed at least.

[duck24x]

I've published math papers in peer-reviewed math journals using Mathtype & MS Word and a 275-page doctoral math dissertation. I never once used TeX, etc. when I entered math grad school in 1988. All our homeworks in math grad school were done on paper. No problems there.

[capoman1]

@duck24x: The internet now allows students to submit logical math discussions from HOME, and the teacher can respond from home, even at 10 o'clock at night! Tex also has the advantage of being able to paste into online forums, and shareable with others; like a text file, no graphics required.

The second benefit of Tex (using a Tex editor), is that typing routine math expressions found in regular and logical math, can be done using keyboard shortcuts, and commands; never touch the mouse again!

[duck24x]

I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have downloaded TeX or LaTeX or some variation thereof onto my home computer and then never got past the installation phase and had to delete it later, all because TeX and all these non-WYSIWYG typesetting programs are absolutely worthless trash. I have used MS Word & Design Science's Mathtype since 1997 and nothing else.

[capoman1]

@duck24x: I don't know if I would call it all "trash" per se.

1. I have already highlighted the "non graphical" benefit of the Tex format; Word relies on saving actual .jpeg or .png files from within Word, resulting in some formatting error when changes font sizes after typing!

2. The speed of typing, rather than clicking around a "plugin" in Word.

Suggestion for your Tex conversion situation: Paste Mathtype's conversion into Lyx, and do some quick editing, you can control Lyx's output.

[n7275]

Lah-teck

[hirunaokurai]

Please stop mispronouncing "LaTeX". "Latex" is a plant secretion. "LaTeX" is a typesetting system. (Yes, I'm nit-picking.)

[shushens]

I found these videos helpful, but I have a request. Please honour how these things are actually called instead of doing some bizarre Americanization. There is no such thing as MikeTeks. It is MikTek. And the language is not LayTakes, it is LaTek. Listening to MikeTeks and LayTeks again and again and again was really strange. I hope you do not mind me pointing this out. I don't understand why things are pronounced like that in certain parts of US, but it is really weird.

[dannysauer]

@tensorbundle, Wikipedia was wrong, but has been corrected within the last week. The first syllable can be either "lay" or "leh", but the second is always "tek". That's because LaTeX is essentially an extension of "TeX", and TeX is pronounced "Tek". This is because the "X" is a Greek Chi (pronounces "ch") , not an english "x". That's also why it's written as "upper-case X". Go to the TUG homepage and LaTeX-project page for refs, youtube won't let me include links. :/

[JonasFilipe9]

Hi! I would like to do a different title with 3authors, the name of my university , the work title etc and lyx just let me do one of each parameter with the report document class. Do you know I can I do this?

I don't know why in the last version 2.0.0 the shortcuts aren't showned beside de menu commands :S, so I didn't know the inser numbered formula shortcut. But I saw in your video when you opened the insert menu :P thanks a lot!

[JonasFilipe9]

Hi, I would like to make diferent Front Page, with 3 authors the name of my university, etc. But Lyx just let me do one of each parameters (just 1 Title, 1 Author and 1 date). How can I do this?

BTW do you know the shortcut to make a numbered formula? I can's find it in the shortcuts list...

[PawelWysocki]

youtube fan sounds like TV fan

[tensorbundle]

Just checked the wikipedia. Pronouncing leɪtek or leɪtex both are correct. 

[Mishkafofer]

@hossein38

Why the x? its not an ancient English word that we need to honor, or it is a rule not pronounce X in the end of the word? I am not native English speaker.

[hossein38]

It is pronounced "Laytek" and NOT "Latex" as in latex gloves. Thanks for uploading these useful videos.