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@title How does
L^AT_EX work?

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@title WYSIWhat?

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What You See Is What You Get

• Formatting with immediate visual feedback

### What You See Is What You Mean {data-category=LaTeX}

• Separation of content and structure
• Formatting only visible afterwards

Image source: xkcd

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@title What do we need?

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Editor

writing our source code including all the commands that structure the text semantically

TeXstudio, TeXMaker

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Compiler

takes the source code and creates a PDF document ready for publication

MiKTeX, MacTeX, TeX Live

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@title Commands

@content General structure of a command:

\<command>[<optional_parameters>]{<obligatory_parameters>}

++ A few examples:

\newpage % inserts a new page
\textbf{bold text} % formats the text bold
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt, landscape]{article} % configures the document class
\frac{1}{4} % inserts a mathematical fraction

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@title Backslash

@content You get the backslash by pressing

AltGr + ß (Windows/Linux)

Alt + Shift + 7 (MacOS)