Part 2: Using LaTeX in Pressbooks
There are numerous reasons to use LaTeX within your Pressbook:
Key Takeaways
Benefits of Using LaTeX in Pressbooks
- Accessibility: allows access to additional display options and accessibility features (when using MathJax).
- Updating equations: Makes your equations easier to update should someone clone your book or chapter
- Symbols: Allows you to use symbols not found in the Pressbooks special character bank
- Variables: Makes algebraic variables stand out when compared to their regular textual selves so that readers are absolutely certain which “a” is a variable and which is an English article.
- Alignment: Useful for aligning the different steps of a solution to an algebraic equation.
Pressbooks offers two different methods to create mathematical equations in your books: MathJax and QuickLaTeX. Each method has an array of options and benefits.
- MathJax
- QuickLaTeX
- Math Within Other Book Elements
- Using Math in H5P Activities
- Using Math in TablePress
- Other Solutions
This part was adapted from the Pressbooks User Guide Chapter on math found at https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/pressbooksug/chapter/equations-and-formulas/
