An example

An example

Without worrying about the details, you can get a general idea of what LaTeX markup looks like from the following short LaTeX source file: 

\documentclass{article}
\setlength{\textwidth}{5cm}
% the above command makes a narrow
% page width for demonstration purposes
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\section{Getting started}
Learning the news of 
Napoleon's defeat at 
Borodino, Talleyrand is
supposed to have said:
\begin{quote}
\emph{Voil\`a le commencement de la fin.}
\end{quote}
In English, this means: 
``This is the beginning of the end.''
\end{document}

The figure shows the printed output that LaTeX produces from this source file. Observe that the output looks much different from the input source file. A backslash signifies a LaTeX formatting command; the control sequences starting with backslashes do not appear in the output. None of the font changes or line breaks is declared explicitly in the source file.

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An example