\documentclass[12pt]{article}
%Insert "titlepage" between [] to get a separate page
%If you delete "12pt", it will be 10pt.  You can't use arbitrary sizes.
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0cm}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0cm}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\textwidth}{7in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9.5in}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pc}
\setlength{\parskip}{1.5pc}

% These are comments

% It is very useful to use vim and do ":syntax on" (without the 
%    quotes)

% Braces are used for grouping; they're mandatory in many places

% Commands begin with a backslash; most have arguments enclosed
%    in braces

% Whitespace is moderately irrelevant; you can put every word of
%    a paragraph on a separate line...but a blank line in regular
%    text indicates the end of a paragraph (there's no explicit 
%    tag for normal text; inside things like titles, you can use
%    double backslash.  If you want vertical space, do \skip or
%    \bigskip.

% Formatting commands include \textbf{boldface}, \textit{italics},
%    \small{foo}, \tiny{foo}, \large{foo}, \Large{foo, \LARGE{foo}

% You can also format text {\textit like this}; the difference is
%    mostly stylistic

% You use the \begin and \end commands to open "environments".
%    They're large formatting things, like "document".

% Underscore is used for subscript in math mode, so use {\_}

% If you use ``quotes'' insetad of "quotes", it will make them
%    look nice



% Compiling info:

% `latex foo.tex`
% If you get an error message, hit ^D to cancel, fix what's wrong
% in the file, and try again.  Nobody sane tries to use the tex
% interactive mode.  This produces a DVI file foo.dvi (and some
% other stuff you can ignore), which can be previewed with `xdvi`.

% `dvips foo.dvi -o foo.ps`
% Once you're essentially done (make sure to run latex so the dvi
% is up to date), you convert the dvi to postscript.  You can send
% that directly to a postscript printer if you like.

% `ps2pdf foo.ps foo.pdf`
% If you don't have a postscript printer, simply make an adobe
% acrobat document (PDF is based on PS, so the conversion is simple)


% this is required
\begin{document}

\title{Foo!}
\author{Jeff	\\ jmv16@cornell.edu}
\date{November 1999}

% This takes the above info and makes it look pretty
\maketitle


% They get numbered automatically; sections are 1, 2, 3 while 
% subsections are 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, etc.  If you don't 
% want numbers, use \section*{} instead of \section{} and
% \subsection*{} instead of \subsection

\section{Introduction}

\subsection{More stuff}

% There's also \subsubsection{} and \subsubsection*{}


% These make lists of various sorts; see how they look rendered

\begin{itemize}

\item [Foo!] quux

\item Bar!

    % We can do nested lists
    \begin{itemize}

    \item Ooopmh!

    \end{itemize}

\end{itemize}


\begin{description}

\item [Foo!] quux

\item [Bar!] quuux

\end{description}




% vfill ("vertical fill") puts whatever is after it at the bottom
% of the page; there's also \hfill that moves it to the right side

\vfill
{\tiny \textit{Last modified 10 September 2000, by jmv.}}



\end{document}
