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Beginner's Guide to LaTeX Experimentation

This document summarizes the author's first experiences using LATEX to format a document. It describes some of the formatting commands they experimented with, such as adding paragraphs, quotes, italics, and mathematical equations. The author notes some challenges like not being able to add empty lines or include certain symbols. Overall, the document serves as a record of the author learning basic LATEX commands as they create their first exercise document in the platform.

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Beginner's Guide to LaTeX Experimentation

This document summarizes the author's first experiences using LATEX to format a document. It describes some of the formatting commands they experimented with, such as adding paragraphs, quotes, italics, and mathematical equations. The author notes some challenges like not being able to add empty lines or include certain symbols. Overall, the document serves as a record of the author learning basic LATEX commands as they create their first exercise document in the platform.

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Preposterous rambings

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September 1, 2019

Abstract
This document is merely a culmination of a newbie’s experimentation with the highly
revered application in the word of science: LATEX(*bows*). This document does not intend
to serve any pedagogical cause but merely serve the purpose of chronicling the fact that this
document is the first such conceived by the aforementioned author.

Hello world! ing italics.


Okay! so lets check how this goes I think So, another problem solved. The com-
adding spaces would mean that the spaces do mand maketitle needs to be added to make sure
get collapsed that the title and author gets printed in the
document. Source: [Link]
However, I doubt that adding a couple of
com/learn/latex/Sections_and_chapters. It
lines in the text is really going to mean that a
seems like this website is going to be my mecca
new paragraph will get started Well, let’s see.
for learning latex command for the time being.
Oh well it seems that the paragraphs do get
Okey dokey. Here goes my first exercise in latex.
started as [Link], my problem is that there
Let’s see how well I do.
doesn’t seem to be a way in which I can add an
empty line before the paragraph. Exercise 1
Alrighty! So, now the next step is the quotes In March 2006, Congress raised that ceil-
which according to manual says that the first ing an additional $0.79 trillion to $8.97 trillion,
apstrophe is the one lying in the corner and the which is approximately 68% of GDP. As of Octo-
other in the other corner. Let’s see how that goes ber 4,2008, the “Emergency Economic Stabiliza-
: ‘Abraham Lincoln’ - why him? dunno :p tion Act of 2008” raised the current debt ceiling
to $11.3 trillion.
So, one of the things which I picked from vi is
going to be used here as well - this sign needs to $ is a sign which is used to mark the start
be there if I want to put down symbols like $ and and the end of the mathematical part. Example
well this was a riot wasn’t it % &. Well another : y = mc. Oh! and another part always in pairs.
problem is that the tilde isn’t coming out. We’ll And ˆ for upperscript and for lowerscript. Ex :
see that later because for the time being I don’t y = x0 +x21 And now some equations to make me
recall tilde being very important for my work. look smaat : Ĥψ=Êψ. A bit more of equations :
By far the cleanest command which I have √
encountered happens to be the {emph} what it −b ± b2 − 4ac
x= (1)
does it italics, pretty basic function but hell, em- 2a
phasis seems a lot more appropriate than freak-
where a, b, c . . .

1
My most worrisome problem as of is that the errors. √
spell check is absent. I could in principle shift to −b ± b2 − 4ac
x=
texlive and get it but, in that way I won’t learn 2a
a lot of latex and for that reason I am willing to ∞
put a bit of extra effort and copy and paste the
text that I type into Word and check for spelling unnumbered equation

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