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A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Popular Formatting Language
LaTeX is known for its beautiful formatting, and is the standard in almost every STEM field. Famous papers that have carried the ideas of groundbreaking advancements in society have been written in LaTeX, and many institutions and research journals require or recommend it. This popular formatting language is a necessary skill to obtain to impress the reader with clean and professional presentation.
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Every document must begin with \documentclass{}, which specifies what type of document LaTeX should be prepared to process. The most standard type is the article. The \usepackage command is included by default to specify document parameters.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}Three arguments: \title, \author, and \date are the three main elements of the title of a formal article. \title{Example Formal Paper} creates an automatically-formatted title, “Example Formal…
