Learn LaTeX().

If you want to produce beautiful documents LaTeX is for you. If you need to maintain bibliographies, produce an index, draw diagrams, produce multiple output formats or layout, then LaTeX is for you.

If you are fed up of the battle to make MSWord do your bidding (or just not mess up your document), then is for you.

The reasons o use LaTeX are many and the only thing stopping most people is the fear that LaTeX is compicated or difficult to use. The truth is LaTeX is as simple (or complex) as you want to make it. For the vast majority of writer LaTeX is ver simple to use but if you are a power user LaTeX can do pretty much anything you need.

Contents

Setup
 1.1 Required Tools

Chapter 1
Setup

1.1 Required Tools

The simplest way to follow along with this book is to install the standardised environment.

VirtualBox

git

vagrant