To turn into beautiful documents, you need a compiler. The easiest solution is the cloud.
Create a free account on Overleaf (or, if you’re adventurous and dedicated, download the full installation to your computer: https://www.latex-project.org/get)
The templates for: AT1 AT2 AT3
I prepared these slides to introduce which cover a core useful subset of :
Wikibooks offers a good introduction to . has a log of features, so, correspondingly, the wiki is quite long. If you really want to learn it, the best way is to use it, and learn what you need along the way.
To get started, some quick useful chapters are:
This is the guide for the intro discrete math class at Penn https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis160/current/files/resources/CIS_160_LaTeX_guide.pdf
While you’re learning all of the math symbols and commands, it’s helpful to have a cheatsheet. There are many of these online, google “latex cheat sheet” or “latex math cheat sheet”. Here’s some good ones:
There is also the tool detexify where you can draw a math symbol and it will give you the corresponding command.
" becomes closing quotes always, so to write opening quotes, use `` (two grave accents (the key to the left of “1” on QWERTY)), so you get ``this is a quote" turn into “this is a quote”.\\ is line break, the appropriate command is \textbackslash.\left and \right for normal height parentheses; it saves some clutter.