22 May 10 My Latex Guide

I have been pretty busy for the past couple of months forming the ideas for my thesis and then creating presentations and the like using latex. More specifically, I created a presentation, and am in the process of creating a report for my thesis. Most of the content is available online here.

In the process, I have come to learn a lot about latex. Unfortunately, most of the documentation out there is not exactly the way I would have liked to have it explained to me. Hence as I was working on my presentation, I had intended to provide my own very quick introduction to how things work. I could not go ahead with it, however, and am still hampered with a lot of pending work with respect to the thesis report. But a few days back, someone requested me for some help to get started with latex and this spurred me to create a small page here explaining things in my way.

I have tried to give a very quick and easy hands-on way of getting going with latex. The spirit in which I would like to convey things is there. However, there will be lots of scope for improvement and in case you have any feedback please do comment here and let me know. Hopefully, the page will be of some help to beginners to latex.

Once again the page is http://linuxandlisp.com/blog/latex-for-absolute-beginners/, hopefully, a sign of more things to come.