You can google for Latex tutorials (there are many). There is a quick and simple introduction here

I use MikTex on windows and Texlive on my mac (the MacTex distribution). Both distributions come with a free from-end GUI called TexWorks.

Texlive is installed on the Prism/Linux machines and Miktex on the Prism/Windows machines.

Download a small text.tex file here.

Latex introduction here. Obtain a small sample latex file here.

• To run the file on Prism from the command line.
• To get started on Prism/Linux:
  • At the command line run texworks. From File→select-from-template→Latex→article save and select a start file.
  • Press the green run button.
  • Select a file from template
• generate latex tables web
• windows app for latex table
• UML
• Visio 2010 is a good tool for doing UML diagrams. You can do your drawing, save as a pdf, and then include the pdf in your Latex document.
  • Download Visio
  • Visio 2010 UML stencil
• The TikZ-UML Latex package can also be used within LaTeX itself to do UML drawings (uses cases, class diagrams, statecharts and sequence diagrams).