
Feel free to recommend old solutions if you feel they are still relevant. This question has been asked in 2011, but I wonder if the answers are still relevant. My students are in engineering, computer science, and math. I would like to know the (short) list of " best" options, for reasonable interpretations of the word " best". There may also be other modern issues I do not even know about. There are modern issues like " does this produce PDF/A compliant documents" that remain a mystery to me (in fact my own version of LaTeX does not conform to the new and stringent PDF/A compliant standard). I need a general-audience method that includes Mac and non-Mac.

The most difficult thing is recommending a way to install LaTeX.

I can make a template for them to learn basic math symbols. I would like to encourage my students to use LaTeX for their homework.
