Help with Writing Spanish Physics Lab Reports in MikTex

[Telemachus]

I want to use MikTex to do my physics laboratory informs. The thing is I have to write the informs in spanish, and I've found that I can't use the tilde on my work, which is really bad, because I can't write it orthographically as it must be done e.g. I can't write Dinámica, but I can write Dinamica (which is "wrong", just like writing dynámics instead of dynamics). But I've seen some works done on latex in spanish with accents, so, I need your help. Maybe I just need an addon for MikTex so then I can use my tildes, or maybe I need some kind of code.

By the way, if you know off some addon for MikTex that adds a friendly front end for the program, so I don't have to write the code and just push some buttons, I'd rather like to know.

Bye, and thanks!

 

[jhae2.718]

Para "Dinámica", se puede escribir "Din\'{a}mica" en LaTeX.

See this for more on accents in LaTeX:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Accents

Also, if you want a more WYSIWYG style approach to LaTeX, try LyX.

 

[Grep]

Doesn't MikTex come with TeXworks? Don't recall if it was any good (I use Linux, but I did use it a few years ago), but it might help.

This should work for french and you probably have to change very little to get it to work with spanish (comments are in french, but are ignorable - I can translate to english if you want, but Google's translate should suffice):

\documentclass[...]{...}

\usepackage{t1enc}
% encodage pour les fontes EC (au lieu de CMR) permettant 
% des césures correctes pour les mots accentués
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 
% Document avec accents format windows, la ligne précédente 
% n'est pas nécessaire si on utilise \`a pour à, etc. 
\usepackage[english,french]{babel} % ou [french] seulement
% Charge les options pour l'anglais et le français de BABEL
% et sélectionne le français comme langue initiale 
% (Chapitre au lieu de Chapter, etc.)

\begin{document}
bla bla bla
\end{document}

I presume changing french to spanish should get it to work.

I got it here:

http://www.cours.polymtl.ca/latex/miktexfr.html

Hope that gets you going!

 

[jhae2.718]

MikTeX includes TeXworks.

Most basic accents can be used just by typing

\$accent{$char}

where $accent is the accent type you want (e.g. ~, ') and $char is the character over which to put it.

 

[Telemachus]

Thank you both. Gracias para jhae ;)

I'm not using linux, so I can't use Lyx. Anyway, I'd like to make some questions about giving format to the text. For example, how do I choose one type of font for my work, how big I want it, the space adjustment, etc? for example if I want to make my text to fill the entire length of the paper, how do I do that text adjustment?

Bye there.

 

[jhae2.718]

LyX is cross-platform. Windows and OS X binaries are here: http://www.lyx.org/Download

To change text/font, see:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting#Fonts
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/en/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts

For global font size, you can just add something like [12pt] in the options for \documentclass[]{}, e.g. \documentclass[12pt]{article}

 

[Telemachus]

Thank you very much :)