Re: OT: How do I use LaTeX?

Felix Ahlner scripsit:

> Hello there,
> for some time now, I've been hearing a lot about LaTeX, and I understand
> the basics (I think...), but can someone tell me which programs I need  )B–
> and where to find them  )B– in order to transform a simple text file into a
> PDF?
Note that if you are at all familiar with Microsoft Office, you can get for free
OpenOffice.org 1.1 from http://www.openoffice.org, which has a one-touch PDF
publishing option.  I find this very useful to publish documents and slides.
It is very Unicode-conformant.

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