\documentstyle[twoside]{article} \begin{document} \section{Simple Text} % section title Words are separated by one or more ``spaces''. Paragraphs are separated by one or more blank lines. The output is not affected by adding extra spaces or extra blank lines to the input file. Since dvips has not been setup to print directly to specific printers, you can not use dvips to print the LaTeX output to the default printer automatically. But, the LaTeX output can be sent to oak by running dvips and pipe as follows: This is yet another paragraph. Long dashes: --- end of dash. Italic text: {\em this is italic!}. Bold text: {\bf this is so bold}. \subsection{A Warning or Two} %subsection \subsection{Subsection} \subsection{'Special Symbols'} Escaped with backslash: \$ \& \# \% \_ \{ and \} \subsection{Subsection} If you get too much space after a mid-sentence period---abbreviations like etc.\ are the common culprits)---then type a backslash followed by a space after the period, as in this sentence. \subsection{Subsection} f you get too much space after a mid-sentence period---abbreviations like etc.\ are the common culprits)---then type a backslash followed by a space after the period, as in this sentence. \section{Another Simple Text} % section title A paragraph in another 'simple' section. \section{Lists} \begin{itemize} \item bulleted list item \item another item \begin{enumerate} \item nested list item1 \item nested list item2 \end{enumerate} This text isn't shown \item this isn't show for some reason \end{itemize} will produce an nested list: \end{document} ~