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Alex I Fee
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Posted on - 11/15/2014
I want to write journal articles with a different text editing software because I understand that they are much more able to do more complex and mathematical things better than Word or other common text-editing software. It seems LaTeX will be an ideal candidate. Could you please give me a brief guideline to follow when writing journal articles in LaTeX? This will get me off to a good start, and then I will continue from there to more advance features.
How to Write Journal Articles Using LaTeX
Hello Alex!
LaTex is not a word processor like MS Word. It doesn’t focus on the formatting. It focuses more on getting the right content. This is a document preparation system for high quality typesetting. We can also use this for publishing or clerical works.
Same procedure in creating a new document in MS Word.
1. Go to File >> New >> create file name (i.e. First and it will give .tex extensions)
2. You just need to type these codes in the window (in our scenario First.tex).
documentclass[lipt] {article}
begin {document}
This will produce textit{italicized} text.
This will produce textbf{bold-texts} text.
This will produce textac{small-texts} text.
begin {document}
***Then look for and click “QuickBuild” to show output.
LaTex is similar to programming languages IDE (integrated Development Environment). If you’re familiar with Java-Eclispe or Visual Basic there’s a button to execute to show the output of the project.
