Below is a sample latex document. If you'd like, you can
download this document as a .tex file to
play with. Also, please look at the
finished .pdf file, and see how this .tex file is converted to a
finished document.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\begin{document}
\title{Sample LaTeX Document}
\author{Christina Huggins}
\date{February 2004}
\maketitle
\section{Here is a Section Header}
Here is some document text. And here is an \emph{emphasized} word,
as well as a \textbf{boldfaced} word. If I wanted to start a new
paragraph, I would just insert a blank line in to the LaTeX
document.
Like so. Note that LaTeX ignores extra white space --- if I had
inserted \emph{two} blank lines in between this and the last
paragraph, LaTeX would have ignored it. LaTeX would also ignore any
extra spaces in between my words: if I wanted extra spaces I would
need to tell LaTeX to insert a non-breaking space by inserting a
``~\~~''. % And % note here that I had to print the ``~'' % with a
special command ``\~'' Here is a sentence ~~ with ~~ extra ~~
spaces ~~ inserted.
\section{Here is Another Section Header}
Okay, now I've started another section. Note that LaTeX
automatically numbers these sections for you.
Hmmmm...what else can we show you here? How about a footnote? Those
are quite easy to insert. \footnote{See? How easy is that?!}
We can also easily insert a list:
\begin{itemize}
\item Here is an item on our list.
\item And here is another.
\item And another
\end{itemize}
Quite fun. Okay, I suppose I will end this sample LaTeX document.
Please also see the finished .pdf file --- and see how beautiful
this document turns out to be!
\end{document}
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