Report and letter document style in latex…

Continuing with the latex version…. Alright if we need to make a quite fancy and letter or report we need to start with these few lines in our document…

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}

\begin{document}
\title{How to Structure a LaTeX Document}
\author{Seario that’s me ;-P}
\date{January 2010}
\maketitle
\end{document}

First line defines the characteristics of our document such as font size, paper sheet size, print on one side, can be both sides, and in a separate squared brackets we specify which kind of document we need, in this we specify report, but it can be letter, as well. Continuing with the inner commands, are fixed commands which create in a clever and fancy way, if I may say, the report cover. After this point we can start to write our report.

In order to specify each of the parts of our report there are specific commands to say so. These commands, as you may notice now, are defined with the “\” character… so the commands that we are using are

\chapter

\section{name of the section}

\subsection{name of the subsection}

\subsubsection{name of the sub sub section ;-P}

\paragraph

\subparagraph

Each one of those commands will be reflected on the main index, however if it is necessary to define one section or subsection and we think that it is not necessary to be specified on the main index, we can just add an asterisk before the left-bracket (\section*{name of the section})

Right, after mentioned that we can add a main index in our work, we can specify several indexes in our work specifying tables, figures, etc. So, the commands are

\tableofcontents

\listoffigures

\listoftables

Those commands have to be specified after the start the main document right after specify the header

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\end{document}

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