User:AndrewKepert/TeX sample
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A sample TeX document, under development. See talk:TeX. Edit the page to grab the .tex file in a coherent format. Feel free to adjust it - it will eventually be an one-page sample document for the TeX article. A plain TeX version will follow.
\documentclass[letter,11pt]{article}
% The preamble section.
\usepackage{fullpage}
\title{A Sample Document}
\author{Wikipedians}
\newcommand{\WP}{\textsf{Wikipedia}}
\newcommand{\implies}{\;\Longrightarrow\;}
\begin{document}
\maketitle % spit out title, author, date
This tiny sample showcases \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ for \WP.
More comprehensive examples, such as Lamport's \texttt{sample.tex}
(see \cite{Lamport94})
are available with any standard \TeX\ distribution, or via
\texttt{www.tug.org}.
Only \TeX nicians need \cite{Goossens94}.
% The source file is read by the \TeX\ program to produce an
% output document which is formatted according to the commands in the
% source file.
\section{Documents, Sections and Paragraphs}
A \LaTeX\ source file begins with a class declaration,
followed by a preamble section, and the body of the document.
The preamble contains settings and definitions.
The body can contain sections, subsections, paragraphs, lists, equations,
footnotes\footnote{This is a footnote.}, figures and tables,
and also commands for automatically-generated structures
such as a table of contents, bibliography, index and glossary.
Commands such as ``\verb|\section|'' introduce
a new section, whilst an empty line delimits paragraphs.
Other surplus white space
is
usually ignored.
\section{Features}
Both \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ allow for \`a\c c\v c\'e\~nts, and
excel at typesetting mathematical equations,
both in-line or displayed on a line by itself.
For instance, an article on quadratics may need
\[ax^2+bx+c=0 \implies x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}\;,\]
or an article on complex analysis may include
\(e^{i\theta} = \cos\theta + i\sin\theta\).
\begin{thebibliography}{8}
\bibitem{Lamport94}
Leslie Lamport, \textsl{\LaTeX\ User's Guide and Reference Manual},
second edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
\bibitem{Goossens94}
Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin,
\textsl{The \LaTeX\ Companion}, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}
