Getting old??

Oh my god!!!!

Right now I'm listening the song "love sees no colour" from U96, an absolute 90's dance hit. Nothing remarkable about it. The thing is that while listening to this song lots and lots of memories from the early 90's took my mind (and I'd say that my hart too) by assault, and for a moment I though: "Those were good times...".

Oh my god, I think I'm getting old!!!!!

Back to LaTeX and French

LaTeX and French, can suggest lots of things .... but in this case I´m going to write only about how to use LaTeX to write some documentation about French grammar. Anyway, do not expect too much about this post, this is only the first in a series dedicated to LaTeX and French grammar, so it will probably be a Little bit naive.

LaTeX is a documentation generation system. Rather than specifying how things should look, you tell LaTeX what things are (i.e. heading, table, figure, ...), and it decides the best professional look for them. If you are used to Microsoft Word, or OpenOffice it can be hard to begin using LaTeX, but once you´ve started you´ll realise how limited those tools are, and how powerful LaTeX is.

This is a sample code to generate a very simple document:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}
This is a first attempt to use latex again. I want to use latex to create some documentation about French grammar, therefore the use of tables will be essential. Let´s see how to create a table

\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{| c | c |}

\hline
\textbf{Person} & \textbf{Pronoun} \\
\hline
First & Je\\
\hline
Second & Tu/Vous\\
\hline
Third & Il/Elle\\
\hline
First Plural & Nous\\
\hline
Second Plural & Vous\\
\hline
Third Plural & Ils/Elles\\
\hline

\end{tabular}
\end{center}

This is our first table. It doesn´t look too bad, does it?
\end{document}

Compile this code online rather than installing LaTeX on your machine, which is a pretty hard task. Use this online LaTeX compiler.

That´s all for today!!!!