Emacs and L^ATEX

This Woodnotes guide won't get into the details of L^ATEX but let it be said that if you intend to develop documents using TEX or L^ATEX software, you could hope for no better text editor than emacs. Find the Auctex package for emacs - it probably came with your distribution anyway - and install it. Auctex will be loaded immediately whenever you open or begin a file with the extension .tex. It makes a whole host of commands available to you at a keystroke and has good documentation that will help you get familiar with its capabilities. It's very convenient to simply hit C-c C-c to run L^ATEX on your document and again to view the DVI output file. Auctex also contains provisions to help you organize and create your Bibtex files, and lots more.