LaTeX - Formatting Text

Overview


Latex provides a number of ways to add style information to text within a document. The typical way this is accomplished is through a tag such as the following. 


\textbf{this text is bold}

The textbf tag indicates that anything within it should be made bold.

LaTeX - Text Formatting


The following are latex tags that can format text. 


\textbf{this text is bold}

\emph{this text is emphasized}

\begin{flushright}
  this text is aligned to the right
\end{flushright}

\begin{center}
  this text is centered
\end{center}

\begin{quote}
  this text is quoted
\end{quote}

Labels and References


Create a label and associate it with the area where it is located. 


\label{TheSection}

The ref command substitutes teh number of the label referenced. 


\ref{TheSection}

tilde creates a non-breaking space. 


~\ref{TheSection}

The pageref command references the page number that the label is located. 


The section is on page 
~\pageref{TheSection}

Lists


Lists are formatted lists of items, such as the following:

  • item 1
  • item 2


The following tags created an unordered list 


\begin{itemize}
\item item1
\item item2
\end{itemize}
An ordered list is one where the items are numbered, such as

  1. item 1
  2. item 2
and can be accomplished in latex with the following 


\begin{enumerate}
\item item1
\item item2
\end{enumerate}
					


\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\end{document}