LaTeX is an open source typesetting software. I'm mainly looking to use it so I can create nice quality math formulas that can be transmitted online via Jpegs or Pdfs.
I downloaded the MikeTEX software and I'm looking at this tutorial:
https://www.latex-tutorial.com/
I'm having difficulty figuring out how to do what they call "compiling." After you have your code typed into a tex file on the composition page, you compile it into a PDF file and that's how you get your finished product. Not sure why I'm having such difficulty getting this one down. It might be my general slowness, I'm not sure.
Here's an example what you can produce:
The hyphens mean nothing, I was just separating the two bits in the file where I was keeping them.
I got the above finished product from this page:
Roger's Online Equation Editor
It's useful, but you only have a small window in which to paste the code you want to translate.
The TEX composition page would be much more useful.