Another introduction from the latex homepage. The remaining steps assumes a Unix environment. I. Latex commands are in red font . You can literally type the above text into a file called report.tex, and latex it as suggested above. There are kinds of lists.
Math symbols are typeset in italics.
But for stand-alone figures, my favorite tool is xfig . One very important feature that I exploit in xfig is the ability to include text that are processed as LaTeX commands. In any case, you want these labels in the figure to look exactly like in the rest of the text. If you find a need to often produce two versions of the same document, a latex output and a hypertext document, then the Hyperlatex tool from Otfried Cheong is for you.