Terence F.

Clines
AME 20214
19 September 2014
This is a sample le in the text formatter L
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It produces the best output of text, gures, and equations of any program Ive seen.
It is machine-independent. It runs on Linux, Macintosh (see TeXShop), and Windows (see MiKTeX)
machines. You can e-mail ASCII versions of most relevant les.
It is the tool of choice for many research scientists and engineers. Many journals accept L
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missions, and many books are written in L
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Some basic instructions are given below. Put your text in here. You can be a little sloppy about spacing. It
adjusts the text to look good. You can make the text smaller. You can make the text tiny. You can link to web sites
Skip a line for a new paragraph. You can use italics (e.g. Computers are everywhere) or bold. Greek
letters are a snap: , , , . Equations within text are easy A well known equation for a line is
y = mx + b. You can also set aside equations like so:
m
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F, Newtons second law. (1)

Eq. (??) is Newtons second law. References
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are available. If you have a postscript le, say sample.figure.eps,
in the same local directory, you can insert the le as a gure. Figure ??, below, plots Bessel functions, three
times repeated, so as to demonstrate how to insert multiple plots.
2 4 6 8 10
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Figure 1: Sample gure plotting Bessel functions, three times repeated.
Running L
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You can create a L
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to run the L
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machine, this is done via the command
latex2pdf file.tex
This generates file.pdf. Alternatively, you can use TeXShop on a Macintosh or MiKTeX on a Windows-based
machine. The .tex le must have a closing statement as below.
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Lamport, L., 1986, L
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