It is very simple, however, as Jamal said, you just start, follow the template of your journal, if you need a help, just write it in google, I did this many times, now I wrote more than 4 papers is this way. Further, If you need more help, I can help you. Also, there are many websites that do some jobs instead of you such as writing and designing a table, or an equation, see these websites, the first for generating a table, and the last two for the equations:

http://www.tablesgenerator.com/latex_tables

http://atomurl.net/math/

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php

Regards

1. download a latex compiler (for example kile for linux).

2. see informations on starting a file here:http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure

3. The main idea is that you write as writing a computer program (not a word file!)

4. There are many good websites for EVERYTHING

It is very simple, however, as Jamal said, you just start, follow the template of your journal, if you need a help, just write it in google, I did this many times, now I wrote more than 4 papers is this way. Further, If you need more help, I can help you. Also, there are many websites that do some jobs instead of you such as writing and designing a table, or an equation, see these websites, the first for generating a table, and the last two for the equations:

http://www.tablesgenerator.com/latex_tables

http://atomurl.net/math/

http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php

Regards

Thank Jamal & Montadar

Dear Iman

In the following link, you can find learning movies for beginning users in "Persian". In my idea, it is very useful.

http://wp.kntu.ac.ir/ftorabi/onlinecourses.html

Also, there is a useful website in "Persian" which can be useful for your purpose:

http://www.parsilatex.com

LaTeX Lab is an open source implementation of a web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs.

http://docs.latexlab.org/

LaTeX for Beginners

http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/latexforbeginners.html

One of the easier way is that U should download the template file from the required journal homepage and just modified ur text with that one. Important thing for the beginner is that all the files including class file, figure etc are placed in same folder where ur document place.

For instance: For ElSEVIER

\documentclass[preprint,12pt,titlepage]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{enuemrate,figure}

Write all the package here that u want/need for preparing the manuscript.

\begin{document}

\begin{frontmatter}

\title{Place the title of the paper here}

\author{Author 1}

\author{Author 2}

\address{Address of the authors}

\begin{abstract}

Abstract place here

\end{abstract}

\begin{keyword}

xyz, abc, def,

\end{keyword}

\end{frontmatter}

\section{Section 1}

\section{Section 2}

and so on.....

\end{document}

Dear Iman,

all earlier advices are helpful. However, if you really want to now TEX begin with your own TEX file, with preambula, formatting, packages etc. It will take some time, but after few days you will be satisfied with the document of your own. You'll find out that there are logical moves and common sense commands e.g. $\blacksquare$ results in a black square, and $\Box$ is an empty square, that is a box.

Regards,

Tibor

I prefer using TexMaker as a Latex editer and the book I would suggest is the Latex primer both are good for beginners.

Otherwise I can recommend having a look at tex.stackexchange (https://tex.stackexchange.com/) for the more serious questions. You can get an incredible amount of help there.

Miktex is my preference under windows

If you need some help, you can contact me by email. ([email protected])

If you use texlive (also under Windows), then you can find a simple template by starting texworks and then File -> Open from template -> Basic ... -> article.... .

By pressing the arrow left of 'pdfLatex', a new window with the pdf for the template will pop up.

Edit your template and process it again using the arrow, you will see the effect of your changes in the pdf.

Try the examples from http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/latexforbeginners.html , say, this way.

You can find a quick and dirty introduction here:

http://danbischof.wordpress.com/data-more/latex/

Dear Imra,

First you think about which journal you want to send . Prescribed format has been available in that journal website. once you get that format just include your contents in to that format. just go through the following link http://ece.uprm.edu/~caceros/latex/introduction.pdf

I believe once you have the template you need you should start using some kind of quick guide, that shows you how to do the basic things, then you can add some stuff a bit more complicated. Anyway I believe a simple google search will provide you of good and basic guides for you to start writing.

If you still have no clue, feel free to contact me at my mail: [email protected]

Miktex also for me

Http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=386496

Http://denethor.wlu.ca/latex/

I use MikTex at back end of WinEdt its a good combination. Also you have many inbuilt templates you may choose the one you like or according to the demand of the journal. Most of the journals do provide their own template.

Dear Friends, I think MikTex and WinEdt is not the issue that but the issue is what exactly Iman wants. The main question is how to write the text inside the tex file and how to justify the text as we did in MsOffice easily. How to write the mathematical equation. How to write justify the equations, how to create a paragraph, how to insert table with well-defined place and position, how to insert figure etc etc. So I though u should go to the respective journal and download their TEX file and move further with their guidelines. So, Please tell what u exactly want my dear friend..

I agree with @Harish Garg, but i believe WinEdt is so user friendly when you start using it it gives almost all the answers which Harish Garg · has raised. At least for the starter it gives most of the answer. Secondly yes if you are trying to write a journal paper you will have to follow their style file. ·

This are the Home page for the Beginning LaTeX tutorial. Miketex and WinEdt software install in your system and one can follow the online tutorials:

www.tug.org.in/tutorials.html

Also PDF format available in:

https://www.tug.org/twg/mactex/tutorials/ltxprimer-1.0.pdf‎

You may go to http://miktex.org/download and choost the best that goes well with your machine, if you are using Mac go to TexShop but it needs more time to be downloaded..plenty of Tex manuals are available in the net, enjoy

Dear Iman,

1. First you have to install a TeX distribution on your computer. For windows I think MikTeX is a good choice. MacTeX is another for Mac computers.

2. I wrote my first paper having an example of a paper (input and output). Then I was imitating and finally succinct!

Look also at the attached.

Another good reference is: LaTeX for complete Novices.

Thanks Dear Costas

I don't see that this has been mentioned, so let me add that many Windows/Office users love the LyX graphical interface that sits on top of LaTeX (distributed at http://www.lyx.org/) It is GNU-GPL open source software and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix) etc. Wikipedia has a good general description at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LyX --- so if you like a graphical interface to your document, LyX is the way to go...

Thanks Dear Michael

Based on the other comments and my own experience, I dare to say that Latex is an acquired taste. You try some combinations until you find the one that seems to work the best for you. That will only be apparent the day you stop cursing at it and focus more on looking for ways to format documents in the way you like it.

Dear @Iman, the best way to learn writing in Latex is to begin with a written Latex file in your field; I always give my students a file for one of my papers to begin with and it always work. Best luck.

I was thinking that by now you should have written that paper!

1. Install Texlive ( Linux ) / Miktex ( Windows).

2. Decide th journal in which you wish to submit your paper.

3. At home page of the journal you will find a latex template.Download it.

4. Replace your contents , Title, Author, abstract and all.

5. If you get stuck somewhere, google the perticular problem.

6. Enjoy :)

hi go throuh hte following links

http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/misc/latex-tutorial/latex-home.html

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~pyo22/students/latexRelated/latexTutorial.html

http://latextutorials.co.uk/

alll the very best

There are pretty good comments above. Nevertheless I suggest the Wikibook about LaTeX

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX

That reference is really good (also for begineers) and it is constantly updated.

download the template of your journal then overwrite your document in it.

first you must be save template journal in you computer and then you can run it.

Regards