Basics

Formatting text and lists

Bold, italics, emphasis, lists, quotations, footnotes and special characters.

Bold, italics and emphasis

Use \textbf{…} for bold, \textit{…} for italics and \emph{…} for emphasis (it switches to upright inside italic text). \texttt{…} gives a typewriter font for code or file names.

This is \textbf{bold}, this is \textit{italic},
and this is \emph{emphasised}. Files like \texttt{main.tex}.

Lists

itemize makes a bulleted list and enumerate a numbered one; each entry starts with \item. Lists can be nested.

\begin{itemize}
  \item First point
  \item Second point
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item A numbered sub-point
    \item Another one
  \end{enumerate}
\end{itemize}

Footnotes, quotes and special characters

Ten characters have a special meaning in LaTeX: # $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }. To print most of them, put a backslash before them, e.g. \% or \&. Use two backticks and two apostrophes for quotation marks.

Accuracy rose by 12\%\footnote{Measured on the test set.}.
We call this ``robust'' training.
Costs: \$5 \& more.

Try it: the full example compiles as it is. Open as a project