Instant LaTeX: How to create beautiful LaTeX documents quickly and easily

I will begin with a brief history of TeX and LaTeX, why they were developed, and how they are useful, particularly for producing typeset mathematics. After a few remarks about why WYSIWYG is not a good way to develop manuscripts, I will show some examples of styles and why you should leave formatting to the experts. I will then talk about markup languages and how you can use a front end to produce useful LaTeX documents, and how you can use those documents to become a TeXnition, if not a TeXspert. Finally, I will show how to take a .tex file and create typeset output by using freeware such as MikTeX or TeX in a UNIX environment.

Darel W. Hardy