A document that tries to explain my understanding of floats within LaTeX documents. Here's a brief blog post linking to the read only version of this: http://goo.gl/G8j9KT.
LaTeX is the best way to write mathematics. It completely pisses all over Word. However, it does take some time to get used to so might not be worth your while if you won't write too much. The way I use it is to first download and install a latex editor and then get writing, but I would recommend that you use this website instead since you can get going a lot quicker. The upshot of the whole business is that you type in here and then a pdf is generated with all the equations looking ace. I'll give you some examples.
Ukázkový soubor pro účastníky workshopu na konferenci v Českých Budějovicích.
(Sample file for workshop participants at a conference in the Czech Budejovice.)
Aula sobre Gráficos no LaTeX ministrada pelo professor Egmon Pereira a alunos do primeiro período de Eng. da Computação do Cefet-MG Unidade de Timóteo.
El presente documento es una guía amigable de LaTeX para la redacción de protocolos de investigación con algunas sugerencias de como debe ser presentada y redactada la propuesta. Esta guía actualmente es utilizada por el departamento posgrado de ingeniería electrónica del Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia.