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I just use templates and fill in the blanks. I once showed my not so computer affine sister how to do it and she likes it too.
Can anybody recommend a more bottom up guide? Something more similar to learning a programming language, where you start with the basic syntax and build on features iteratively?
Is Knuth's book the best way to go? Or is that like learning C, when you wanted to learn C++?
"Brief Intro to Latex for programmers/developers" vs "Master LATEX in minutes", quite a difference! But looks nevertheless like a good introduction to LaTeX. Just why the all the emoji...
VOL〈▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱▱〉I've written my first LaTeX documents with LyX [1], a wonderful application, if you're just getting started. [1] https://www.lyx.org/
I am not really into LaTeX but i write all my letters with it and like doing so very much. I get nice looking clean documents that have a very professional appeal and are much more convenient to create than in any full fledged editor. I just use templates and fill in the blanks. I once showed my not so computer affine sister how to do it and she likes it too.
For any poor soul that has to write LaTeX for whatever reason but doesn't want to bother installing anything, I cannot recommend https://www.sharelatex.com/ enough.
This is the only reason I got to make my team mates use to Latex for lab reports instead of Word. Latex isn't hard, and the fact that I could help them in real time and that they could see my code in our report's context got them pretty good at latex within an hour of using it !
I used LaTeX a lot in university, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Even a minimal (and good looking) document requires a lot of (La)TeX knowledge. You can of course use one of many existing templates, but you will quickly feel lost when you have to customize things. These days, just go with Markdown (or the like) and just include assets (say graphs) as SVG and be done with it. For scientific papers (especially…
For any poor soul that has to write LaTeX for whatever reason but doesn't want to bother installing anything, I cannot recommend https://www.sharelatex.com/ enough.
However, I briefly used www.sharelatex.com, is a web GUI (or WYSIWYG) type approach to Latex. It's a good project and makes using Latex slightly easier, but user must still know various packages, how to layout images etc. Nonetheless, sharelatex is a good effort and hope it benefits others.