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:
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
- item 1
- 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}