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This should help people getting started in LateX with the most commonly used commands and blocks, a good references is the Latex LaTeX Wikibooks, which can be found on
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX.
Philosophy: Why is
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LaTeX so different than Word ?
In the LaTeX the author is and supposed to focus on content and logical structure of the document. The page layout, fonts, colors, etc. are handled by the layout class which is provided by the LaTeX system. This means the author doesn't need to worry about these things and can just write content. Hence also the layout possibilities for The backside is, that the LaTeX file needs to be compiled first, before one can have a look at the final document.
But especially in large documents, the strict separation
Some Basics
Latex LaTeX Commands start with a \ and have usually the following structure
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\command{parameter}[options]
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Latex LaTeX is very often using begin-end blocks to structure text elements
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