[tex-live] compact latex samples?

[Heiko Bauke]

Hi,

On Sat, 19 May 2007 19:25:12 +0100
Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy at mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/tex/> might be useful, and
> I use it whenever I teach latex, 

do you use it as a negative example?

> \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
> % The following commands adjust the size and location of the page on
> the paper \oddsidemargin=-0.05in
> \textwidth=6.9in
> \topmargin=-0.8in
> \textheight=9.55in
[...]
> \begin{document}
[...]
> \begin{abstract}
>   This is a sample \LaTeX\ document. You can use it as a start for
>   your own.  We give examples of basic \LaTeX\ writing, including
>   using a {\tt .bib} file for handling bibliographies. We explain how
>   to use the {\tt graphicx} package to include postscript or PDF
>   figures and the {\tt hyperref} package to produce an automatically
>   hyperlinked document and to add URL's to your document.
> \end{abstract}

I would suggest http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/l2tabu/english/
instead.


	Heiko


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