Linux with Operating System Concepts

Command
Meaning
Example Usage
\documentstyle
Change type of document
\documentstyle[twocolumn]{book}
\documentstyle[11pt]{article}
\author{author names}
Author names are centered in 
smaller font under title
\author{Richard Fox and Frank 
Zappa}
\chapter{},
\section{},
\subsection{},
\part{}
Create a new portion of document 
with a title (size and numbering 
determined by type specified, e.g., 
chapter vs. section)
\chapter{How to Use LaTeX}
\section{Starting Your Document} 
\subsection{The title page}
\begin{tabular}{…}… 
\end{tabular}
Create a table where {…} indicates 
the justification for columns
\begin{tabular}{|l|lr|} {…}
\end{tabular}
Creates three columns: left justified, 
left justified and right justified, and 
the use of | indicates where table 
borders should be placed
\maketitle
Used to generate a title page
\newline,
\linebreak,
\nolinebreak
Insert new line or permit a line 
break at this point, do not permit a 
line break
\parindent{},
\textwidth{},
\textheight{}
Set paragraph indentation and 
margins
\parindent{.3in} 
\textheight{1in}
\tiny, \scriptsize,
\footnotesize, \small,\large, 
\Large,\LARGE, \huge
Various text size commands

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The order of the entries (author, title, etc.) is unimportant and depending on the type of 
entry, some fields are optional, such as volume for the article. Note that fox2010 is a label 
that we will use in our LaTeX file.
@article{fox2010,
author 
=
{Fox, R. and Zappa, F.},
title 
=
{Using Linux to Dominate Mankind},
journal 
=
{The Linux Journal},
\documentstyle{report}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}The title of the document\end{center}
\vspace{2pc}
This is a sentence. This is a second sentence. This is a 
third sentence. This is a fourth sentence. This is the end 
of a paragraph.
This is a new paragraph. The blank line between the two 
paragraphs indicates a new paragraph. See how it 
automatically indented? We can also prevent indentation.
\noindent We start a new paragraph without indentation. 
This is another sentence for the non-indented paragraph.
And now we have another paragraph, indented. Lets look at a 
list.
\begin{itemize}
\item The first item
\item The second item
\item The third item
\end{itemize}
This is much like html. We specify formatting around the 
word(s) to be formatted such as {\it italicized text}, {\bf 
bold faced font}, or \underline{underlined text}.
\end{document}
FIGURE 5.7 
LaTeX file (top) and resulting document (bottom).

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volume 
=
{March},
year 
=
2010,
pages 
=
{85-93}
}
In your LaTeX document, you reference bibliography entries through the 
\cite
command 
as in 
\cite{fox2010}
or 
\cite{fox2010,keneally2008,mars2012}
. You also have 
to specify the location of your bibliography through the 
\bibliography{
filename
} 
command. The filename is one or more bibtex files located in the same directory as your 
LaTeX file. These files are expected to end with the extension .bib as in myrefs.bib. You can 
also insert a 
\bibliographystyle{
type
} command to specify the 
type
of bibliogra-
phy style. The style type can include 
aaai-named
, 
abbrev
, 
abstract
, 
acm
, 
alpha
, 
apa
, 
bbs
, 
chicago
, 
kluwer
, 
plain,
and 
these
(thesis) to name a few.
Once you have processed your LaTeX file, before you try to create your ps or pdf file, you 
need to process the bibliography. This is done with the command 
bibtex