LaTeX Tutorial

Latex is a powerful tool for writing complicated scientific formulae and document layout. As a tool for students of all ages Latex is an important feature of Notely as it allows students writing scientific notes to keep up with teachers even when writing long formulae.

Using Latex within Notely is easy. If you are using the Word like toolbar hit the Sigma button on the far right, otherwise add the tags [tex][/tex] to the text area. Now you just need to add the formulae within these tags.

Learning Latex is intuitive and simple; the majority of greek characters are written as their spoken name i.e \sigma. To write a capital character simply write the english name with a capital i.e \Sigma. A simplified list of the characters is given as,
Greek Charaters
Upper Case Greek Charaters

Superscripts and Subscripts are written using their logical characters ^ and _ respectively. Thus writing ds^2 = dx_1^2 + dx_2^2 + dx_3^2 - c^2 dt^2 will give Superscripts and Subscripts.

A large variet of mathematical operators are obviously included and are generally written as their spoken name ie \sum produces a summation sign. A small range of usefull operations are shown below
Mathematical Operatiors

This concludes a large part of LaTeX. If you get stuck just try \ plus the spoken name as the majority of characters and symbols are written like this. Below are some useful links on LaTeX commands and the LaTeX project in general.

Useful Links