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Format your text

Now that you know how to compile, let us format the text: section headings, bold and italic. In LaTeX, you do not click a "bold" button: you write a command, and LaTeX takes care of the layout.

Compile Compile this example. Notice how \section creates a numbered heading, and how \textbf / \textit set text in bold and italic.

The basic commands

  • \section{Title}: a section heading (numbered automatically). A finer variant: \subsection{...}.
  • \textbf{...}: sets the text in bold.
  • \textit{...}: sets the text in italic.
  • A paragraph break is made with a blank line (not with \\).
Modify Your turn: add a subsection with \subsection{...} and set at least one word in bold. Compile to check.
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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\section{My section}
This is \textbf{important}.
\subsection{A detail}
An addition in a subsection.
\end{document}
Complete Complete the code so that the word "important" appears in bold in the PDF.
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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
This word must be in bold: \textbf{important}.
\end{document}
Key point: in LaTeX, formatting = commands (\\textbf, \\textit, \\section), and you separate paragraphs with a blank line.