\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\input{preamble.tex}

\begin{document}
\lecture{2}{Rafail Ostrovsky}{April 3, 2006}{prepared by Zaphod Beeblebrox }{Handout 2: Using LaTeX}

Some useful links to learn LaTeX are:
\begin{itemize}
\item {\sf http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/} 
(lots of tutorials here)
\item {\sf http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/minidev/www/Minicourses/latex.pdf} (pdf printable MIT tutorial)
\item {\sf http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/}
\newline
(one of the turorils)
\end{itemize}

In addition, we will use preabmle.tex file. So generally, start with:

\begin{verbatim}
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\input{preamble.tex}
\begin{document}
\end{verbatim}

This will allow you to use the preabmle.tex package.
The first thing you should put after that  is the {\em header},
produced as follows:
\begin{verbatim}
\lecture{2}{Rafail Ostrosky}{April 3, 2006}{Joe Scriber}
\end{verbatim}
This will produce:
\lecture{2}{Rafail Ostrosky}{April 3, 2006}{Joe Scriber}

Of course, you should modify lecture number (here it is $2$), 
Date, and your name.
To see what the header.tex allows you to do, look at
the 
\begin{verbatim} http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/TEACHING/SPRING-2006/HowToUsePreamble.pdf\end{verbatim} 
file, prepared by Robert J. Ragno.
\end{document}


