<p>How do I see what it looks like? Like a print preview option? I’m using TeXnicCenter.</p>
<p>it’s the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software.</p>
<p>I downloaded it already, and I installed it too. But this is really confusing.</p>
<p>The Art of Problem Solving website has a wiki on LaTeX with tutorials to walk you through it and a forum to get help from other users. You can find the wiki here:
[LaTeX:About</a> - AoPSWiki](<a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:About]LaTeX:About”>Art of Problem Solving)
and the forum here:
<a href=“http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php?f=123[/url]”>http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Forum/index.php?f=123</a></p>
<p>^ Thanks a lot. The youtube videos featuring a guy with a thick Chinese accent weren’t very helpful lol.</p>
<p>When you said LaTeX, I thought you were doing the annoying typing and meant something completely different. </p>
<p>It would have made a good ■■■■■ thread though.</p>
<p>
Thick accent = welcome to every math class you’ll take in college.</p>
<p>No, most of the UCLA professors are Russian.</p>
<p>ughhh I hate it <.<</p>
<p>get ready for hours of trying to figure out why it won’t do what it should…</p>
<p>Again. Thick accent = welcome to every math class you’ll take in college.</p>
<p>This thread fails to deliver.</p>
<p>I think you have to compile every time you want to view the output. There’s no real way to preview without compiling.</p>
<p>//When you said LaTeX, I thought you were doing the annoying typing and meant something completely different.//</p>
<p>Heh.</p>
<p>Wow, this is such a pain. I guess I’ll have to use Word for this report…</p>
<p>don’t be discouraged,
the more you use latex the better you get at it
and apparently it pays off in college/grad school when you have to write research papers
but i shouldn’t talk, i’m lazy and forgot how to use it.</p>
<p>So I followed the directions on AoPS and I keep getting an error message. I probably installed it wrong.</p>
<p>Probably, what kind of error message?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>It says that twice.</p>
<p>That’s probably not an installation problem.</p>
<p>did you put “\documentclass” in the beginning?</p>
<p>Edit: Else, post your code, minus the stuff inside \begin{document},\end{document}</p>
<p>It doesn’t work either way. I get three errors instead of two.</p>
<p>Weird.</p>
<p>I can compile fine with the following code:</p>
<p>\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
ormalsize{Jello World}
\end{document}</p>