TeX and LaTeX

Don Knuth

 Some background

• Don Knuth and the origin of TeX. The Art of Computer Programming.
• How I got interested in typesetting
• Why TeX is free 

Leslie Lamport

• Document formatting v. Word Processing
• Markup languages
• Goldfarb's GML amd SGML (ISO 8879 in 1986)
• Brian Reid's Scribe
• Leslie Lamport's LaTeX
• The LaTeX Document Processing System

Getting started

• TUG - the Mother Ship: http://tug.org
• CTAN - everything everywhere:  ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/
• TeXLive for Linux, Unix and Windows
• MikTeX for MS Windows
• MacTeX for the Mac

Editing v. word processing

• TeXWorks (Jonathan Kew and Stefan Löffler)
• TeXStudio
• WinEdt
• Emacs and many others.

More complex examples

See: http://cikitsa.blogspot.com and click "XeTeX".