This document provides information about Donald Knuth's computer programming work, the TeX and LaTeX typesetting systems, and how to use LaTeX. It discusses that Knuth created TeX as a typesetting system to create beautiful documents and avoid typographical issues. It then explains that Leslie Lamport built upon TeX to create LaTeX, a document preparation system used for medium to large technical and scientific documents. The document concludes by giving examples of LaTeX commands for formatting text, sections, mathematics, and more.
22. documentclass{article}
title{A test document to learn LaTeX}
author{V N Krishnachandran}
date{19 February 2010}
begin{document}
maketitle
Hello world!
end{document}
Create?a?text?file?like?the?one?above?and?compile