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# Skill/Installing and running a Tex package.

 Title Installing and running a Tex package.

TeX is the standard software used to produce publication-quality scientific documents. Freely available, for just about every computer operating system, and installed on almost every university computer system, TeX can be used to typeset mathematical documents very quickly, and with outstanding results.

This skill involves the following steps:

• Installing a Tex package on your personal computer, or finding a university computer with Tex installed.
• As a compromise, you can install Tex onto a USB stick drive, and then use it on any windows computer (your own, or a university computer).
• Running a text editor, to create and save a LaTex file.
• Modifying the LaTex file, to add your name and insert an equation.
• Using Tex to compile this LaTex file to a PDF file.
• Viewing and printing this PDF file.

The instructions here are not meant to be a complete guide to LaTex. Many other guides are freely available, such as The Not-so-short Introduction to LaTex. Follow the directions in the tabs, depending on which operating system you work with (Windows, Mac, Linux) or if you want to use a USB drive.