LaTeX Beginners Guide

Time for action – listing LaTeX packages

We shall create a list of packages that we got to know in the previous chapter:

1. Begin a new document and enter the following code:

   \documentclass{article}
   \begin{document}
   \section*{Useful packages}
   LaTeX provides several packages for designing the layout:
   \begin{itemize}
     \item geometry
     \item typearea
     \item fancyhdr
     \item scrpage2
     \item setspace
   \end{itemize}
    \end{document}

2. Typeset and have a look at the output:
   

What just happened?

It was not necessary to load any package. We began with a heading followed by some text. For the actual list, we used an environment called itemize. As we know about environments, ...