How to use LaTeX and why all textbooks look the same

It's a very useful video! Thank you for making this video.💯❤

Latex is great, but I would always recommend one to use a linux OS with vim or nvim as it just allows for greater freedom than these online latex editors.

I'm sorry but can anyone read what he's typing?

When I discovered these tools (way back in the 1990’s) I started learning TeX with the help of Donald Knuth’s “The TeXbook” and practiced writing documents with that before starting LaTeX. Raw TeX is much more low-level and doesn’t provide the uniform document styles LaTeX has, but I’m a software developer and doing it this way helped me understand how LaTeX works under the hood. The main thing I like about TeX is it’s a very stable language and well documented, unlike proprietary document formats like MS Word which seems to change every version or so and doesn’t always play nicely with 3rd-party editors.

Neovim + Zathura is the best method for writing in latex. It's fast and minimal. You can get snippets and other plugins that allow you to make neovim what ever you want. Also, vim key bindings is the only way to write code for me now and I love it.

I did my 274-page doctoral dissertation for Rutgers University in 2000
and published 8 peer reviewed math papers from 2001 to 2012 all in MS Word + Mathtype.
I began with Mathtype in 1997. I've heard of tex/latex since I entered graduate school at Rutgers in math in 1988.

I have never figured out how to use them. Tried over a dozen times.
That is how worthless and user-unfriendly and horrible tex/latex are.

Bro atom is deprecated it will disappear soon

Finally! Someone who explains each line of code from the creation of the .tex file to the end. Thank you :")

I had the Haliday and Resnick Physics text asxa student. And Resnick was our lecturer! Great demos!

what is the switches on the keyboard?

The three exclamation marks is just annoying. No textbooks look the same, some crackpots like their genius ideas written in MsWord or so, esp. some engineers that pretend to be scientists.

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Hey Thomas, just started to learn latex. Thanks for this awesome video!

A friend of mine swears by Mathematica when it comes to writing documents. While Mathermatica is known for equation solving and programming you can also create publishable documents with it.
I've tried it and it has a 'decent' WISIWYG interface for writing that includes equations however I found it rather lacking in publication ready tools. If they're there at all they're poorly documented.

A note on version control: At some point I putting my latex docs into a git repo, and I haven't been looking back ever since. You're able to recover your document, easily work on multiple machines and always check your repo for some things you've had in the doc at some previeous point. Just put your temp files etc in a .gitinore or so

My team and I are working on some open-sourced biology and chemistry books, and this video made things SO much easier for us. You are awesome, keep it up!

Great breakdown. Subscribed.

Just found this video as I'm writing my undergrad thesis in astronomy, thanks a lot! Suuuper useful!

I would say that learning code makes learning latex Easier. Compiling/packages/and documentation, are fundamental concepts in code and they all play out here.

Did you continue using Atom after it’s depreciation?

Word has become quite good at equations, the looks. The numbering of equations in Word is always a problem, though.

Hey dude Thank you for making this video. for whatever f****ing reason my physics program didnt teach us anything about LaTeX in undergrad.

A really useful tool to exist on the internet indeed. Loved everything about the video. Thanks

As a Mac user I use TeXShop. TeXMaker which runs on both Mac and PC is also good but I prefer TeXShop.

Hi, thank you for your video. I've started using Atom for latex documentation. As soon as I run something, the PDF is being opened in the system PDF reader as well as in the atom window. Can you please let me know how to refrain from the system PDF reader?

Too long of an intro. Cut it short, and waste less time.

This was a very useful video! I have been trying to setup Latex with Vim in WSL 2 Ubuntu with no success. This approach seems much more straightforward. Thank you.

Oh my goodness! Thank you so, so much!!! I'm writing a brief handbook on physicochemical processes in biological systems and I've been fretting over how I've going to type up all of my equations and format in the figures.

Do you happen to know a good piece of software for creating more complicated diagrams (e.g. a multi-part figure showing (A) a diagram of a galvanic cell powering an electrolytic cell, (B) a screenshot of a kinase active site, and (C) an orbital energy diagram? I've been using Google Slides as my preferred interface because it can create a surprisingly professional-looking result, but I doubt that's what others are using and I'd like to develop my skills.

LyX is a great LaTeX editor that makes it much easier to use.

Oh, is % for comments? Because you just plopped in "% some text" without explaining it not far into the video

Sublime is bad, it's not free while Atom and VSCode are. Btw I have also seen people use VIM which is popular on Linux and it's a text editor where you navigate around with the keyboard instead of the mouse. I don't use it but it's worth mentioning

Been looking for a video like this for a while, cheers 👍