Introduction Basic Typesetting Advanced Typesetting References Introduction to LATEX Nobel Khandaker [email protected] 01/11/2010 by Nobel Khandaker Introduction to LATEX Introduction Basic Typesetting Advanced Typesetting References Outline 1 Introduction 2 Basic Typesetting 3 Advanced Typesetting 4 References by Nobel Khandaker Introduction to LATEX LATEX is pronounced \lay-tech" or \lah-tech", not \la-teks" LATEX is most often used to produce technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing Introduction Basic Typesetting Advanced Typesetting References What is LATEX? LATEX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting by Nobel Khandaker Introduction to LATEX LATEX is most often used to produce technical or scientific documents, but it can be used for almost any form of publishing Introduction Basic Typesetting Advanced Typesetting References What is LATEX? 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