The participants are encouraged to download following software, suitable for their Operating System.
It is a set of typesetting system which includes many packages to be used by the user. The LaTeX distribution has different name for different operating systems (Linux: TeX Live (cross-platform), Mac OS X: MacTeX and Windows: proTeXt/MikTeX).
- If you’re new to TeX and LaTeX or just want an easy installation, get a full TeX distribution.
Following are some pointers to TeX distributions recommended.
TeXLive
: It is an easy way to get up and running with LaTeX. It provides a ready-to-run TeXsystem for most types of Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows, and includes all major TeX-related programs. It also includes a complete tree of fonts and macros, with support for many languages.
Linux
: TeXLive is sufficient.
Mac OS
: MacTeX is a LaTeX distribution for MacOS X. It is TeXLive with the addition of a native Mac installer and some Mac-specific programs.
Microsoft Windows
: proTeXt is a LaTeX distribution for Microsoft Windows. It is based on MiKTeX. proTeXt guides the MiKTeX installation via a short PDF document. It also adds a few tools on top of MiKTeX
The workshop will be conducted with the use a LaTeX Editor, which is available for all operating systems and is Open-source i.e. TeXstudio.