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Library of Science - Papers
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Papers is an excellent application for Mac that enables you to search, download, archive papers. It allows you to browse, organize, read, annotate, etc. Here is the link.
LaTeX Tutorial
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The best introduction to LaTeX I know of is entitled “The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX -or LateX2e in 141 minutes” written by Toblas Oetlker. You can get the PDF by clicking here.
Installing LaTeX
2008/// Filed in: Programs
Several of my students have been asking me about installation of LaTeX for Mac OS X. Below is a series of steps:
-1) Download the MacTeX package: http://www.tug.org/mactex/
-2) Follow the GUI instructions to install MacTeX
-3) Download and Install TeXShop: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
-4) Install a reference manager such as JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
Note: TeXShop may already be included with the newer MacTeX distributions.
-1) Download the MacTeX package: http://www.tug.org/mactex/
-2) Follow the GUI instructions to install MacTeX
-3) Download and Install TeXShop: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/
-4) Install a reference manager such as JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
Note: TeXShop may already be included with the newer MacTeX distributions.