Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

[Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk>]

>>>>> richard lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:
> The basic document types are dead easy to work with.  If, like me, you 
> find their graphic layouts dead-ugly too, then you have to set up your 
> own templates.  This takes a bit more familiarity, so I recommend 
> starting with the standard classes and putting up with the layouts that 
> come out until you feel confident to mess with them. 

As an alternative to waiting for the confidence to mess with the
standard classes, you could try the koma-script classes, which have
a nicer layout, or the memoir class, which is very flexible and easy
to work with to get the layout you want.

-- 
Jim Ottaway