LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – starting with a template

LaTeX editors often provide templates to start with. TeXworks offers some as well. So we shall test this feature, let's take one, open it, modify it, and Typeset:

1. In the TeXworks main menu, click on File and then on New from template. A window will open allowing you to choose a template:
   
2. In the lower part of the window, you can read the template's source. Here's an example of KOMA-Script (KOMA-letter.tex):

   % !TEX TS-program = pdflatex % !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode % An alternative to the standard LaTeX letter class. \documentclass[fontsize=12pt, paper=a4]{scrlttr2} % Don't forget to read the KOMA-Script ...