On Feb 6, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Sudarshan Iyengar wrote: > well i did put a backslash now its giving an error message saying > that "undefined control sequence..." in line 1.3 Indeed. \Latex isn't a defined control sequence. \LaTeX is. >>> documentclass{article} >>> \begin{document} >>> This is my \emph{first} document prepared in \Latex. >>> \end{document}