I would like to start writing mathematical documentation with LaTeX. Could someone recommend me a good set of tools for this purpose? I don’t much care for easy-to-use solutions. I’m more interesting in guaranteeing full control over my writing. I would also prefer answers from folks who use these tools in academia or professionally 
Thank you in advance.
Can you explain what you mean by that?
A .tex document with mathematical formulas contained?
Could someone recommend me a good set of tools for this purpose?
I assume you mean more than just the pure editor to write the document?
I believe so, yes. I need to be able to write mathematical notation along with prose. Some documents are to be used as is, others to be integrated into page composers like Scribus(?) to be made into exams or for presentation purposes.
If a single editor is all I need, then that is all I need. I have no knowledge of LaTeX beyond what I read of what it can do. And searching Synapse gives me way to many options to be able to understand exactly what I need. Once I have my hands on a professional-grade tool or set of tools, I can move on to learn the markup.
I don’t use LaTeX. But if I were in your situation, I’d download this pdf file to get, at least, a start.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
Edit: See this to ask questions that might get better answers.
Hallo marfig
After seeing all the useful support you’ve given other forum users it’s nice to be able to send some help in your direction.
I suggest that you install and look at “Lyx” (install via Synaptic). I’ve used it to produce a small PDF-brochure, but had no need of mathematical symbols. I know that mathematicians use LaTex a lot.
Lyx is a frontend for LaTex and has a GUI with familiar (more or less) buttons, similar to those found on word-processors.
Let us know what you think of it…
Maybe this tutorial is useful as well?
Thank you @alpinejohn
Seems a processor is all that is needed. Lyx seems like an excellent option since it steers away from the WYSIWYG approach that I tend to dislike so much on markup editors. Got a well maintained stable PPA from theLyx website and the following are the additional packages I will install after exploring a bit around:
chktex (version 1.7.4-1ubuntu2) will be installed
fonts-lyx (version 2.2.2-1~xenial~ppa1) will be installed
preview-latex-style (version 11.88-1.1ubuntu1) will be installed
texlive-fonts-recommended (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
texlive-generic-extra (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
texlive-lang-portuguese (version 2015.20160223-1) will be installed
texlive-latex-extra (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
texlive-latex-extra-doc (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
texlive-science (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
texlive-science-doc (version 2015.20160320-1) will be installed
Not choosing any HTML/PDF/… converters yet since I need to explore the many options. Meanwhile learned that Scribus integrates well with LaTeX, so that requirements seems covered. From here on it’s a simple matter of learning the markup and getting to work. Thank you once again.
@orschiro
Thank you for the link. However I do prefer to delve deeper when I’m in learning mode, for which reason I prefer to read documentation, buy a book or two on the subject matter or search for more extensive sources of information. Anything that reads “Learn in X minutes/days/weeks” is automatically discarded by me on general principle, regardless of who writes it
@marfig, I see.
I just saw this link being upvoted on Hacker News and thought maybe it was worth a look.