Latex Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

New iBooks Author supports LaTeX and MathML

by Mike Schramm (Oct 25th, 2012)

LaTeX is document markup system (similar to the popular Markdown) that's popular among high-level academia and mathematics authors. iBooks Author 2, which was released during Apple's big event, now supports the LaTeX protocol. It works through the MathML markup language, which a lot of ...

Using LaTeXiT to display math formulas

by Sang Tang (Aug 18th, 2009)

TeX is a typesetting standard that, among other things, allows you to typeset complex math formulas. One flavor of Tex is LaTeX, for which LaTeXiT serves as a front-end for on Mac OS X. Using LaTeXiT, one can drag and drop complex math formulas to a number of apps -- Pages, Keynote and TextEdit, to ...

Keep iPhone clean with iPhone Fingers

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2007)

Wait, this is a joke, right? Our friends at Engadget reported on this crazy product with plenty of snark, but no actual "haha we're kidding this isn't really real" hints. So is it true? Can you really buy black latex "fingers" to keep from getting smudges on your iPhone? And if so, what's up with ...