Kile

Kile is an easy to use integrated LaTeX environment based on KDE. We assume that using a locally installed latex environment may be useful for further teaching purposes. With Latex and Kile as a frontend you can create articles, reports, letters, poster or even books in very short time.

Kile provides a latex reference with alphabetical index. Just go to the menu Help-> Latex Reference.

The reference is placed under: /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kile/latexhelp.html

Tip: Texmaker is another comfortable tex editor.

So what is Latex?

Latex is a structured text formatting and typesetting tool set

Quote from Kile Handbook:

"The LATEX typesetting system is similar to other markup languages as XML, used for many types of documents (including the one you are reading), or HTML, used for web pages. The general idea is about having specially wrapped keywords, called tags, that tell a program (a word processor, a web browser, or the Kile compiler) how to present text. Kile offers you a good number of such tags in the menu LaTeX in the menu bar."

latex2html

This tool is able to convert a tex document with just one step to html code. The way the result looks after conversion is simple but very efficient. See also two other commandline tools: tex4ht and mk4ht

gnuhtml2latex

You can use already existent html content and continue to work with this data in kile

gnuhtml2latex is a Perl script that converts html files to latex files. It takes list of .html files as arguments and make .tex ones. Can also convert html stdin to latex stdout

writer2latex

Is an integrated java plugin in Openoffice and can export doc or odt documents to latex.

Note: You should download install the newer version 0.5