How do i learn this quickly?

Go through Leslie Lamport's book and type up every example.

i reckon that there are packages out there for doing this
so i can just install a package and use it

you want the ChemFig latex module
ctan.mirror.colo-serv.net/macros/generic/chemfig/chemfig-en.pdf
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Chemical_Graphics

Use overleaf or some other realtime rendering so you can see what works and what doesnt
this, I used it for university but thats it

Buy a book. Read it.

Then apply it.

find a template online for what you need and work off of it

Download a template and write on it

Who really learns LaTeX through a fucking book. What is the internet for. Also for every good package there is a pdf-file.

I used Latex every day (I'm in academics).

I just read a book.

It'll save you a shit ton of googling.

Thoughts on pic related (LuaTeX)? If you aren't scared of programming it seems like it's god tier.

you can do this, I don't have the infographic but it's out there. Sorry (I've never had the use case, but I've seen this and circuit diagrams done in the same infographic - check out youtube and search the web).

Attached: luatex.png (249x203, 5K)

It is called tikz.

As for luatex, I never really needed it.
Everyone uses LaTeX (in publications and at school) so I just kept using that.
If anything is hard to do in latex, I probably shouldn't be doing it. Do you have any examples of something worth doing that is hard in latex and easy in luatex?

here ya go, brainlet: wiki.contextgarden.net/Programming_in_LuaTeX#Parsing_input_without_exploding_your_head

Native OpenType font support, and a real programming language embedded in a document (nice for things like calculate, at run-time, the optimal position for diagrams) which allows it to be extensible and extendable (a feature which, as an emacs user sounds lovely).

I can't site specifics as I haven't used it yet.

>people actually using Latex instead of Word

Microsoft Word has an Equation editor too, you fucking retards.

this

see would like to know how to create them in Microsoft® Word™

These aren't comparable. We LaTeX for typesetting documents that will be printed after publishing. We use word to create electronic documents.

I learned from an ebook a former professor wrote

It's nice, but few people will ever need to use Lua scripting. I use XeTeX for Unicode and system fonts.

>generate molecule in some chemistry program, there must be plenty
>save
>convert to vector image
>paste it on pdf
Easiest method?

If you're not a brainlet, read The Not So Short
Introduction to LaTeX 2e (e as epsilon).
Then read and practice with the LaTeX wikibook.

LaTeX is top tier for longer than five pages documents and other stuff. For simple things, use a text editor or a word processor.

The chemistry LaTeX package does it fast as fuck, but only when you're already used to it.

Word equation editor is fucking shit, only good for highschool tier equations.

>need to type \backslash everytime i want \
>it's way better guys!

you draw it in chemdraw and copy and paste it as a png

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\title{}
\author{}
\date{}
\maketitle

\section*{}

\linebreak
\vspace{}

\begin{itemize}
\item
\end{itemize}

\begin{tabular}
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

thats 99% of my latex

Learn the very basics like italics, bold, sections, and then try to write something. When you come across something you don't know how to do, Google it or look it up in Overleaf. Repeat until done.

>few people will...
what makes you say that?

uh, use a good editor maybe?

>201x
>not writing your notes in Markdown and post-processing into LaTeX with Pandoc to get quality documents without getting brainfucked

>png
But then it won't scale beautifully!

Use something like .svg

this, ppl recommending books r dumb

>you can write chemical formulas like in markdown

bump

use XyMTeX like the hyperautist you are
xymtex.com/fujitas3/xymtex/xym501/manual/xymtex-manualPS.pdf