This document discusses LaTeX document formatting. It covers sections and subsections, environments like center, flushleft and flushright. Font styles like bold, italic, and roman are described. Font size commands like large, larger, huge, small, footnotesize and tiny are provided. Underlining and framing text is also covered using commands like underline, frame and fbox. The document is authored by Sarita Bopalkar and provides an introduction to basic LaTeX document formatting.

1. Basic Document Formatting
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Sections and Subsections
LaTex for Document Preparation
1. Introduction
2. Comparison with other document preparation tools
3. Formatting guideline
a. Basic Formatting
b. How to import figures
c. How to insert tables

3. Sections and Subsections
%Course on Document Preparation software: Latex
documentclass[12pt]{article}
% optional specifications : Here defined article with font 12pt
%Blank lines mean nothing, in the preamble
begin{document}
section{This is a section}
% here body of section
Here lots of blanks no effect , after running, text looks normal
Skipping 4 lines is the same as skipping one line And it starts a new paragraph
subsection{This is a subsection}
% here you can write body of subsection
subsection{This is a another subsection}
section{Here is another section}
end{document} © Sarita Bopalkar

4. Fonts and Paragraphs
General form of an environment
begin{environment}
...
end{environment}
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5. Fonts and Paragraphs
begin{center}
.
. The text is centered
.
end{center}
begin{flushleft}
.
.Here flush left environment begins
.
end{flushleft}
begin{flushright}
.
. Here flush right environment begins
.
end{flushright} © Sarita Bopalkar

6. Different font styles
textbf{text}Bold
textit{text}Italic
textrm{text}Roman
textbf{textit{bolditalic}}BoldItalic
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7. Formatting for font size, underline, framing
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Font size
• {large large}
• {Large larger}
• {huge huge}
• {small small}
• {footnotesize smaller}
• {tiny tiny}
Underline & Framing
• underline{text}
• frame{text}
• fbox{text}.

8. Thank you
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