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MathPage is a system for online publishing and lecturing. You use LaTeX typesetting system, which is widely used in academy, for publishing to MathPage. With your online lecture notes, you can give lectures in a virtual lecture room as well as in a real lecture room.

You start by registering for publishing and lecturing in MathPage.¹ In the front page, click the Registration button to go to the registration page. After entering basic user information, a confirmation email is sent to your email address. Confirming registration completes your user registration. Now back in the front page, you can log in with your registered id and password. Use the Author menu for managing books and the Instructor menu for managing learner groups.

Instructors and learners having online classes in MathPage do not need anything else than a web browser connected to the Internet.

An author publishing to MathPage must have a LaTeX typesetting system available as well as utility software openssh and rsync for uploading files to MathPage.¹ These are all free software.

Writing books using LaTeX consists of editing document source files using a LaTeX editor and compiling using a LaTeX typesetting system. Depending on your platform, the following LaTeX systems are available. These systems also include LaTeX editors.

For Mac, we recommend

which includes a superb LaTeX editor TeXShop. For Linux, we recommend

and for Windows we recommend

TeXLive and MiKTeX also include a very nice LaTeX editor called TeXworks.

You need openssh installed on your computer. First open a terminal.² In the terminal, type

to check the version. If this fails, then you have to install it. On Mac, you can use Homebrew.³ On Linux (and on WSL), you use apt tools.

You need rsync installed. In terminal, type

to check the version of the rsync installed. To work well with MathPage, the version should be above 3.0. If this is not the case on your computer, use Homebrew or apt to install the latest version.

D2 Coding font, distributed by Naver co., is a very nice free font for LaTeX editors. The font is available at

This is a video format converter software. For example, a video file in webm format can be converted to a file in mp4 format. The home page is at

This is a mathematics computation software based on the Python programming language. SageMath facilitates creating interactive visualizations. The home page is at

LaTeX is the most popular format layered above TeX, the typesetting system developed by Knuth. To learn about TeX, consult Knuth’s TeXbook [1].

For general introduction and help for Hangul LaTeX, consult the KTUG(Korean TeX Users Group) http://www.ktug.org.