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I have written some LaTeX documents, LaTeX is great to help you give format to documents, as for your CV or Resume, it is a real good idea to use LaTeX instead of Word layouts, as the most of people use them, so if you want to have a resume different to the rest, use a different editor, give it a different format, make it look more "professional" so you can have better opportunities that the people reviewing the CVs take yours just giving a glance to the CVs.

It is normal the need to add tables into documents, If you are using LaTeX to write your documents this goal can also be achieved in a very simple way.

We will have to use the tabular environment.

the format for this is:

\begin{tabular}[pos]{table spec}

Today I would like to introduce you to the world of TeX, specifically LaTeX.

As LaTeX is complex, I have divided this document into these parts

1. Introduction to LaTeX
2. My first LaTeX document
3. Setting LaTeX paper Size and margins
4. Inserting Figures on LaTex
5. Texmaker a cross platform LaTeX front end
6. Create Tables with Latex

I will later add more LaTeX tips.

We are going to cover now the front end for LaTeX in Linux, well one of them as there are more than one.

Texmaker

Texmaker is according to its site:

Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application

When we are writing documents, no matter if these are with MS Word, Open Office or Latex, sometimes we need to insert graphics on them.

Well if you are using Latex, there is a solution, and a good and easy one to insert graphics on the document.

The first thing you need to do is to add this line below the documentclass control sequence.

\usepackage{graphicx}

Page Margins and page size are really important parameters if you want to have a neat and nice print of you work.

First lets see how to declare the paper size, that is declared with \documentclass control sequence.

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,titlepage]{article}

On this second part of the document we will start to see the structure of a LaTeX document.

As our first step we will install the necessary software

apt-get install texlive-latex-base

Then to create the document we first declare the document type and the letter type (at least)

\documentclass[10pt]{article}

The document will 10pt letter, and will be an article, you can also define the size of paper here:

\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,titlepage]{article}

Definition

Latex is like a derivation of TeX which was created by D.E. Knuth and LaTeX by L.B. Lamport and is better for long articles than TeX.

From Wikipedia