1. NGUYEN THI THANH NHA HMCL
Introduction to LATEX
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2. Outline
What is LaTeX
Why LaTeX
How to install LaTeX in Windows

3. What is LaTeX Tex: LaTeX: Word origin: Markup language, like HTML.
Created by Donald Knuth in 1977.
LaTeX:
Document preparation system based on TeX consisting of collections of pre-built macros for text formatting.
Created by Leslie Lamport.
Word origin:
"TEX“: Greek tau (T), epsilon (E) and chi (X) -> technical, technique,....
“La” : Leslie Lamport built “LaTeX”

4. Why LaTeX Separate of content and style It’s FREE
Use a document style.
It’s FREE
High quality output: DVI (device independent), PDF,…
Total control over the presentation of your document.
Scalability
Portability
Performance – LaTeX doesn’t crash like Word
Extensible
Work well with high mathematical content.

5. Install LaTeX in Windows
LaTeX distribution: MiKTeX
responsible to transform an input to an output
Text editor: TeXstudio, Eclipse (by plugin TeXlipse), Notepad++,…
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