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Latex For Beginners Part 2

This part will be dedicated to talking about Parts, Chapters, Sections and Paragraphs. The hierarchy being just that, so for those who don't click a lot in Microsoft Word to make sure everything is the right hierarchy, you're going to have to type it now! (Honestly I rather type than click a lot).

For those wondering what a section is, it's another word for header, but more general since latex serves different needs for documents.

Defining these are simple, just put \ in front of the word, like so:

\part{Part 1}
\chapter{Chapter 1}
\section{Section 1}
\paragraph{Paragraph 1}
\par Text % \par is for paragraph text, as it indents
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Except for \par, they all have alternate forms by putting * in front of the word, this is to not have the numbers and such
shown.

Let's make a new document and use a variety of these to really show how they work:

\documentclass[11pt, letterpaper, oneside]{book}
% To use chapter, it must be book class
\title{Latex For Beginners Part 2}
\author{Mustafif}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
   \maketitle % create title page 
   \pagenumbering{arabic} %define page numbering
   \newpage
   \tableofcontents % set table of contents
   \newpage 
   \part{The first of the first}
   \chapter{I am chapter}
   \section{I am the section}
   \subsection{I am subsection}
   \subsubsection{I am subsubsection}
   \section*{I have no number and TOC won't see me}
\end{document}
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Run pdflatex part2.tex and you'll see something like this:
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In the next part we will discuss Equations, the fun and the pain

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