introduction to latex

what's a good website that has an introduction to latex for window users? I will be using it mainly to write math homework problems and probably then converting it to a PDF to print out. I'm hoping 开发者_Python百科somebody has bookmarked a good link already so I don't have to search. Thanks!

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You should start from this "not so short introduction to latex" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf

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I recommend this one: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

LaTeX works the same across platforms (and even across its distros, except some may provide features that others don't), so it doesn't really matter what your platform is.

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I find that Andy Roberts's site is perfect for beginners, it has a lot of newbie exercises and takes you by the hand in a perfectly controlled fashion. It is my online reference for my basic latex questions.

http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/index.html

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The LaTeX Community site doesn't seem to have any beginner tutorials, but it does have a number of articles that go into specific uses. If one of those articles covers what you're trying to do, then it may give you a headstart.

Outside tutorials, as a beginner getting into LaTeX, I found the TeXnicCenter Open Source IDE to be very useful. It makes life a lot easier when you get some syntax colouring and templates to help with common structures like tables.