Abstract
Why do you need to learn LATEX? LATEX has become an extremely popular typesetting system and is widely used throughout the sciences. As a student you may need to typeset reports and theses in LATEX (particularly if you are a graduate student in any mathematics or computer science discipline). Or you may be someone who had planned to "eventually" get around to learing LATEX, but you are still using older systems and methods of typesetting. Procrastinate no more!
The authors have elected to cover LATEX 2e, the latest standard version at the time of publication. The old and new versions are very similar and it is clear that the LATEX 2e will soon dominate. An appendix discusses the differences between 2e and the older version 2.09.
