Difference between revisions of "Latex on Ubuntu"
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There is a Winefish program to edit the latex files, but you can do it using gedit or emacs if you know most of the commands or have a good example or template. A good editor would have syntax highlighting and auto spell-check. | There is a Winefish program to edit the latex files, but you can do it using gedit or emacs if you know most of the commands or have a good example or template. A good editor would have syntax highlighting and auto spell-check. | ||
− | Install some packages to get ''pdflatex'' and other tools. Note, there is no package named ''pdflatex''. | + | Install some packages to get ''pdflatex'', "xelatex"" and other tools. Note, there is no package named ''pdflatex''. |
sudo apt-get install tex-common | sudo apt-get install tex-common | ||
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base | sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base | ||
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra | sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra | ||
+ | sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex | ||
Get some fonts to avoid the infamous missing 'ptmri7t' error. | Get some fonts to avoid the infamous missing 'ptmri7t' error. |
Revision as of 10:23, 7 October 2011
This is what I did to get TeX/Latex working on Ubuntu 10.04. Note, this is not the only way... Also, this may have some redundant packages.
There is a Winefish program to edit the latex files, but you can do it using gedit or emacs if you know most of the commands or have a good example or template. A good editor would have syntax highlighting and auto spell-check.
Install some packages to get pdflatex, "xelatex"" and other tools. Note, there is no package named pdflatex.
sudo apt-get install tex-common sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex
Get some fonts to avoid the infamous missing 'ptmri7t' error.
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
You can create the pdf document from TeX like this
pdflatex mydoc.tex
I find it useful creating a makefile that will do this and some other tasks, such as cleaning up the log files and such.
Updated install for 11.04
sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra
Good resources
- in general: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
- Fonts and text size: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting#Font_Styles_and_size
- Figures and captions: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Figures
- Tables: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables
- Latex makefiles: http://www.wlug.org.nz/LatexMakefiles