is a widely applied scientific type setting program.
It takes a text-file as input and creates a PDF-document (or PS).
The text-file contains LaTeX-commands which are preceded by a backslash.
When a '%' sign is in the text all characters right from this sign are ignored.
Thus comments are preceded by a "%".
For convenience STRAP prepares some deactivated lines which can be activated by removing the "%".
The following shows how "hellow world" is created with LaTeX:
First step: Type the following into a text file
named test.tex and save it as plain text: (!text-file not word-file)
\documentclass[pdftex,a4paper]{letter}
\begin{document}
hello world
\end{document}
Second step: Open your terminal shell. Run the following command
pdflatex test
When everything goes right, a file test.pdf is generated.