A DBD sample chapter as an introduction into LaTeX
This should help people getting started in LateX with the most commonly used commands and blocks, a good references is the Latex Wikibooks, which can be found
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
Some Basics
Structuring documents
\chapter{A sample Chapter} \section {Introduction} \subsection {List of systems} \subsubsection{List of subsystems} \paragraph{List of subsystems}
these commands can be used to structure chapters into sections, subsections, paragraphs etc.
More details can be found here
Lists and enumerations
\section{Lists and enumerations} An example for a bullet list \begin {itemize} \item Item 1 \item Item 2 \end {itemize} and for a numbered list \begin {enumerate} \item Item 1 \item Item 2 \end {enumerate}
A common element are bulleted and numbered lists, which is shown above
Labels and cross-references
\section{Labels and Cross-referencing} Any position in a text can be marked using \label{blabla} and be referenced using \ref{blabla}
common are references and labels for chapters, sections and figures
\chapter{A sample Chapter\label{sid:chapter_sample}} as can be seen in Chapter~\ref{{sid:chapter_sample}