LaTeX course is a brief, Beamer-based slide presentation on LaTeX, based on the CTAN/info/german/tex-kurs by Rainer Rupprecht (1988) and on CTAN/info/lshort/ by Schmidt et al., 2003 This material may be used freely under the LaTeX project licence. History: 2008: original version 2012: update, several minor corrections, use of kp-fonts