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Pagebreaks, space, footnotes, references, boxes, etc

• Page Breaks :- you can force a page break using \newpage.
• Preventing line breaks :- If there's a word that you don't want broken, put it in an mbox. E.g.,

  One shouldn't try to break up \mbox\emph{relationships}
  

• Space :-

  You can create vertical space \vspace{.5cm} between lines 
  or horizontal space \hspace{1.5cm} between words. 
  The arguments to these commands can be negative.
  

  creates
  
  You can create vertical space between lines or horizontal space        be-
  
  tween words. The arguments to these commands can be negative.
  
  \vspace* will create space even at the top of a page. It's sometimes useful to create stretchable space. The following creates space that pushes the letters to the edge of the page

  \noindent A\hspace{\stretch{1}} B\\
  C\hspace{\stretch{1}} D
  

  A                                                                  B
  C                                                                  D
  

• Footnotes :-

  Do them like this\footnote{I told you so.}
  

  Do them like this¹ The footnotes are numbered by default. If you want to use symbols (stars, daggers etc) then you need to redefine how the footnote counter is displayed.

  \def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
  

• Margin notes :-

  Do them like this\marginpar{margin note}
  

  Do them like this

• Cross References :- At the end of this source file is the line \label{THE_END}.

  The last page (page \pageref{THE_END}) is in section
\ref{THE_END} produces The last page (page ) is in section 6. You'll have to run L^ATEX at least twice to pick up forward references like these.

• Boxed Text :- For short pieces of text, use \fbox

     Help. I'm \fbox{trapped}
  

  Help. I'm

• Comments :- Anything to the right of a % character is ignored by L^ATEX .

• Rules :- The \rule takes 2 arguments; a width and a height, so
  \rule{\textwidth}{1pt} produces

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2007-03-29