\documentclass[11pt]{article} % document type: two-column article \usepackage{isolatin1} % ISO Latin character set \parindent0pt % no first line indent \parskip1ex % space between paragraphs \begin{document} \section*{Introducing \LaTeX} \subsection*{Typefaces and styles} This text illustrates some typefaces and styles available in \LaTeX: \textbf{bold type}, \textit{italic type}, \textsc{small capitals}, \textsf{sans serif}, \texttt{typewriter}. The novelty in \LaTeXe\ is the fact that most type styles can now be combined with each other without problems -- for example, \textbf{\textit{bold and italic}}. Obviously, the type size can be changed as well, from {\tiny very small} to {\small small} to {\Large fairly large}. \subsection*{Text blocks and frames} {\small \begin{minipage}[t]{7cm} The {\small\verb?minipage?} en\-vi\-ron\-ment is used to place text blocks side by side next to each other. \end{minipage} \hfill \begin{minipage}[t]{5cm} This is the second, slightly narrower mini-page. \end{minipage} } \hbox{}\hfill\fbox{ \begin{minipage}{5cm} Here, a 5 cm wide minipage was centered by means of one preceding and one following {\small\tt \char92hfill} command and framed by means of {\small\tt \char92fbox}. \end{minipage} }\hfill\hbox{} \subsection*{Bulleted lists} \LaTeX\ has many advantages as opposed to other programs: \begin{itemize} \item The quality of the results speaks for itself. \item After getting used to the syntax, processing speed is very high. \item \LaTeX\ texts are portable and they are frequently used for on-line documentation in the Unix world. \end{itemize} \subsection*{Footnotes} This paragraph provides two examples for footnotes.\footnote{This is the first footnote.} Obviously, \LaTeX\ numbers the footnotes\footnote{The second footnote.} automatically. \subsection*{Mathematical formulae} \LaTeX\ owes its still great importance mainly to its excellent formula setting capacities. Just try to input the following formulae in any other program! Formulae can also be used directly in the text (for example, at this point here: $\pi \, \int x^2 dx$). \[\lim _{n\rightarrow \infty }\sum _{k=1}^{n}\sqrt [3]{1+{\frac {k^{2}} {n^{3}}}}-n\] \[\left [\begin {array}{cc} {\frac {\partial }{\partial x}}f&{\frac {\partial }{\partial y}}f\\ \noalign{\medskip} {\frac {\partial }{\partial x}}g&{\frac {\partial }{\partial y}}g \end {array}\right ]\] \end{document}