LaTeX for linguists
Here are a couple links of useful pages for learning LaTeX as a linguist. If you know some basics (or even if you don’t), take a look for some tips on typesetting.
http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/latex.html
http://ug.bu.edu/blog/lingtech/collected-notes/linguistics-in-latex/
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/external/clmt/latex4ling/
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/advice/latex.html

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