{"id":139,"date":"2021-03-17T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/pressbooksguide\/chapter\/what-is-latex\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T19:05:25","slug":"what-is-latex","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/chapter\/what-is-latex\/","title":{"raw":"What is LaTeX?","rendered":"What is LaTeX?"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--sidebar\">Last update: September 5th, 2024<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latex-project.org\/about\/\">LaTeX<\/a> is a markup language and typesetting system commonly used in mathematical and scientific writing. It can be used to create documents from scratch or display equations in a web browser with the help of plugins, as is the case in Pressbooks.\r\n\r\nBelow is an example of what LaTeX can look like. This is a simple example, but LaTeX can be used to write much more complex expressions.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Use the formula [latex]V=\\pi r^2h[\/latex] to calculate the volume of a cylinder.<\/p>","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--sidebar\">Last update: September 5th, 2024<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latex-project.org\/about\/\">LaTeX<\/a> is a markup language and typesetting system commonly used in mathematical and scientific writing. It can be used to create documents from scratch or display equations in a web browser with the help of plugins, as is the case in Pressbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an example of what LaTeX can look like. This is a simple example, but LaTeX can be used to write much more complex expressions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Use the formula <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-content\/ql-cache\/quicklatex.com-252def69ecab010fd05238d57b1e7d16_l3.png\" class=\"ql-img-inline-formula quicklatex-auto-format\" alt=\"&#86;&#61;&#92;&#112;&#105;&#32;&#114;&#94;&#50;&#104;\" title=\"Rendered by QuickLaTeX.com\" height=\"15\" width=\"75\" style=\"vertical-align: 0px;\" \/> to calculate the volume of a cylinder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-139","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/139\/revisions\/432"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/136"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/139\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openpress.wheatoncollege.edu\/openpressguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}