Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Are you interested in creating nice-looking documents, while avoiding the headaches generally associated with normal Word documents? In this video, I'll show you how to get started with LaTeX, including what programs you need (all free), how to put together a simple document and view the resulting PDF, and give you links to some of my templates that you can try out for yourself.

00:00 - Who should use LaTeX?
01:03 - Useful references
01:22 - Programs you'll need
01:49 - Texmaker download
02:06 - MiKTeX download
02:27 - JabRef download
02:45 - Sumatra PDF download
04:00 - Texmaker settings
05:38 - Starting a document
07:40 - Adding references
11:27 - Adding figures
14:12 - Adding equations
16:24 - Templates

===== TEMPLATES =====
►Download from my GitHub
github.com/jte0419/LaTeX_Templates

===== PROGRAMS =====
Texmaker: xm1math.net/texmaker
MiKTeX: miktex.org
JabRef: jabref.org
Sumatra PDF: sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

===== USEFUL REFERENCES =====
Wikibook: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
Overleaf: overleaf.com
Stack Exchange: tex.stackexchange.com

===== NOTES =====
- There are so many ways to accomplish the same thing with LaTeX, so if you see something I did and you do it a different way, that's great.
- I'm deliberately not going into a bunch of details and explanation in this video.

===== ERRORS =====
Please let me know if you find any errors in my video, or in the template files provided.