basic.md

:title: An Introduction to \TeX{}Lite :author: Lucien Rae Gentil :fontsize: 11pt

Introduction

This is a basic example of a \TeX{}Lite document. You can use Markdown syntax to make words bold or italic, and even write in-line code snippets.

If you want advanced features, all standard in-line \LaTeX{} commands can be used seamlessly. For example, I'm writing this on \today{} and here are some words in \textsc{small caps}.

Maths

One thing that \LaTeX{} documents are great for is maths typesetting. Using standard maths notation it's easy to write down that $E = mc^2$.

You can also write full-line equations:

$$$ e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0 $$$

And multi-line aligned equations:

$$$ x &= 4 \times 5 + 1 x &= 20 + 1 x &= 21 $$$

Conclusion

\TeX{}Lite is a great open-source tool for writing well-typesetted documents with minimal overhead. \TeX{}Lite documents can also be exported straight to .TeX for whatever manual tinkering or styling you might want.