LaTeX

My Professor asked me to write down my thesis by LATEX. Actually, I am not so familiar with LATEX... lets see in wikipedia, what is the meaning of LATEX.
LATEX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. LaTeX is used because of the high quality of typesetting achievable by TeX. The typesetting system offers programmable desktop publishing features and extensive facilities for automating most aspects of typesetting and desktop publishing, including numbering and cross-referencing, tables and figures, page layout and bibliographies.
Now, how can we use LaTeX? I found a blog which derive us how to install LaTeX. The blog is so familiar with me, thats one of my lecturer blog (Bu Yuhana). She gave us detail information of LaTeX installation in Indonesia Language. So, I try to translate into English in my blog. I install LaTeX on my notebook using windows operating system.

• You need to download and install MikTex from http://miktex.org/2.7/Setup.aspx
• Install Ghostscript from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/GPL/gpl861.htm. Beware of ghostscript version, some version is not support to windows.
• Download and install Ghostview from http://www.monarch.cs.rice.edu/ghostview.html
• Download and install Texmaker dari http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html, again beware of the operating system supported by the software. Textmaker is used to write LaTeX code.

oke, let we try... how powerful LaTex, we will make some introduction by writing "HelloWorld" on LaTeX.

• Open Texmaker and make a new file
  
• write down this script on Texmaker :

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Hello World!

\end{document}

• Save the document in "Hello.tex"
• Finally, convert the file into PDF by using PDFTEX in tool bar

Here is some references of how to write LaTeX.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf