Typeset Everything!
To supplement your skill you must also cook up small documents in the interim, such as letters, invoices, birthday cards, one-off proofs and satirical pieces.
Stefan Kottwitz' Cookbook was of good help for these tasks, and in doing these things you will keep touching up your knife's blade.
Here are some silly rookie challenges I opted to do in \(\TeX\):
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1. Wiki /wiki/
2. LaTeX /wiki/latex/
From the moment I laid eyes on a \(\TeX\) typeset document, I fell in love with its style and figure. However, I thought it too difficult to learn, and instead spent my time in markdown.
Eventually whilst mastering that rather limited syntax, I found myself turning to YAML headers and \(\LaTeX\) snippets to get my work done with sufficient quality.
At some tipping point, the \(\TeX\) began to intrigue me and I began sloppily typesetting my University Mathematics assignments in \(\TeX\) and later carved out time in my Summer Holidays to work through the necessary tutorials.