LaTeX for linguistics

Get LaTeX

Use locally or on the cloud (or both).

• on the cloud: Overleaf.com (or other services)
• locally: Install a TeX distribution from latex-project.org (TeX programs, and many packages and fonts)

What is it?

• The origins: TeX. Dates back to the late 70s/early 80s (Don Knuth). For formatting text for technical documents.

  Type texdoc gentle at the command line for an intro, if you're interested in the original TeX.

• LaTeX: easy(!)-to-use version for authors (Leslie Lamport). The point: describe content, formatting separate.

  For decades, and still today, LaTeX is the standard format/program for technical writing (in lots of fields, including linguistics).

My demos and resources

• General demo

• Easier multilingual input with XeLaTeX

Resources

• A method I use for keeping all my references synched in one common .bib file: see the readme here.

Other resources

• your suggestions?

• even if you don't use LaTeX locally, some useful tools to install are:

  • LaTeXiT (LaTeX stnippet -> image)
  • deTeXify (handwriting -> LaTeX symbol)

For linguistics specifically:

• From Doug Arnold: latex4ling site (old, but still some useful things on there)

• From Ng E-Ching: LaTeX for Linguists more up to date, useful links

• From James Crippen: Using TikZ for linguistic diagrams