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Thanks, you would be surprised what a big difference it makes when we hear nice things about ShareLaTeX. (I am a ShareLaTeX person)
by beck5 9y ago
Thanks, you would be surprised what a big difference it makes when we hear nice things about ShareLaTeX. (I am a ShareLaTeX person)
- maxnoe 9y agoYou are doing great work. But what I cannot understand is, how you still recommend stuff like $$ in a new beginners guide in 2017. I had several moments in this tutorial where I thought: Oh, god. This got deprecated 20 years ago.
- yzmtf2008 9y agoOut of curiosity, what should I use instead? And what are some tutorials that promote more modern techniques?
- ajholyoake 9y ago\begin{equation} ... \end{equation}. Finding modern resources to learn LaTeX (and indeed TeX for macros etc) has been a perennial difficulty for me!
- occamrazor 9y agoOr \[ ... \] for unnumbered equations.
- maxnoe 9y agoI would use \begin{equation*} ... \end{equation*} for consistency and ease of switching between numbered and unnumbered. It's true, finding modern LaTeX tutorials is even harder that modern c++. It shares many of the same problems. We put together a LaTeX course (in german) for physics student every year and keep it up to date with best practices as much as possible: http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.pdf http://toolbox.pep-dortmund.org/files/archive/latest/latex.p...
- thetwentyone 9y agoFWIW, it's not just ShareLaTeX... I learned LaTeX a few years ago and through the tutorials and resources I used I learned the `$$` syntax. I'm a very infrequent user, but this is the first I've heard that it was depreciated at all, let alone 20 years ago. I do support OP's thoughts that a 'modern' LaTeX solution like ShareLaTeX should encourage best practices though.