TeX Basics

This document contains some information on TeX word and paragraph formatting.

Changing font style

\em

This is the default way to highlight a part of text. Usage:

        {\em some text}
        \begin{em} A large amount of text \end{em}
      

Usually, the highlighted text will appear in italics. When the highlighted part ends inside a word, it is a good manner to use the \/ command, which prevents the italic part from being printed on the regular text. (Compare {\em high}light and {\em high\/}light.

\bf

Don't you mean "Bold Font" when issuing this command? You are right...

\tt

Typewriter font style.

\TeX, \LaTeX

These commands generate the TeX and LaTeX symbols, respectively. Don't forget to use the \[space] command after them, in order not to 'stick' them to the next word.

\today

Inserts today's date