Installation and Basics in LATEX

LaTeX is a typesetting language which allows you to create professional-looking documents with-out worrying about the formatting. It is extensively used in scientific journals. If you have started 2nd year labs you may have already been introduced to it. The purpose of this tutorial is not to make you an expert in LaTeX, but to give you the kick start which will allow you to immediately produce simple documents without having to know all the ins and outs. The best way to learn LaTeX properly is to use it, so perhaps the most important part of this tutorial is the ‘Final Advice ’ section, and the References, which you can use to find out how to do just about anything LaTeX can do.