Another good place to start is to read the freely available "Not So
Short Introduction to LaTeX", which can be found at:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/
Googling for LaTeX tutorials/howtos might also work...
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:21:53 -0400, Gregory Seidman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:21:41PM -0500, cecil wrote:
> } Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as
> } he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex
> } thingie". My buddy is a real wordmaster. LOL. I did some reading up on
> } it; it's interesting. I never knew that you could do all that with no
> } window system. Does anyone here use it on a regular basis, and if so,
> } how hard is it to use, setup, print, etc? I'm having thoughts of perhaps
> } writing papers this semester in emacs and if this thing... Well, let's
> } just say I'm trying to have an open mind about things. I'm trying not to
> } summarily dismiss thing just because I don't know what they are, or, are
> } not familiar with them.
>
> You might think of LaTeX as a programming language which can be compiled
> into typeset documents (more accurately, TeX is the language and LaTeX
> is a library on top of the language). It is moderately easy to use and
> learn, especially with a reasonable book (I find Kopka and Daly's "A
> Guide to LaTeX" indispensable). Consider the following document:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \author{Cecil}
> \title{Sample}
> \date{\today}
> \maketitle
>
> \begin{abstract}
>
> Sample abstract for a sample paper.
>
> \end{abstract}
>
> \section{Introduction}
> \label{intro}
>
> An intro to the paper.
>
> \subsection{Introducing Subsections}
> \label{subinfo}
>
> In fact, there's a whole hierarchy, down to subsubsection, paragraph,
> and even subparagraph.
>
> \section{Using References}
>
> Don't forget about references, like seeing Section \ref{intro} or
> \ref{subintro}.
>
> Oh, and don't worry about paragraph breaks; a bare line is all you need.
>
> \end{document}
>
> By the way, I prefer to work with a GUI and I find it very helpful to
> compile my document with some regularity to see it on the screen. In
> particular, I prefer to have two monitors, with the source I am editing
> on one screen and the PostScript result on the other, but one can
> certainly do without that.
>
> There are also a million and one extension packages, many of which are
> included in the teTeX distribution (i.e. what is packaged in Debian).
> They can make it easier to do any number of things with your documents,
> and some of them are documented in the book I mentioned above.
>
> I am a fan of LaTeX. YMMV.
>
> } Cecil
> --Greg
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