Getting started with vanilla LaTeX isn't actually that bad. The very bare minimum is easy (take the hello world document, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Ba

Getting started with vanilla LaTeX isn't actually that bad. The very bare minimum is easy (take the hello world document, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics#Our_first_document https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics#Our_first_documen... , as a template and start typing); after that, as you need to do more and more things you can look in the (very good) wikibook or google. One gradually works one's way up the learning curve.