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Note that you don;t need to have section commands if they aren't necessary.

Any text
typed any way
without overriding embedded  LaTeX commands block is typeset as a paragraph
Note how text is automatically
set into pretty blocks. You can even have all the punctuation, like commas,
or `{single}quotes', or ``double quotes'', embedded easily therein. So
easy, you say? Whey ask -- of course it is!

Here's another paragraph \ldots

\ldots And another one \ldots

Switching {\em fonts} {\tt is} {\bf ludicrously} {\sc easy} in \LaTeX. Note that Roman
font is default -- switching to Roman font is typically done only when typesetting mathematics where you want to embed text 
(we'll talk more about this later).

{\footnotesize Switching}
{\small font}
{\normalsize size}
{\large is}
{\Large also}
{\LARGE very}
{\huge easy}! 

Be careful when you want to switch font size and type simultaneously, because 
{\huge \bf this will work} but
{\bf \huge this won't}.

Inter-paragraph spacing is defined in the document-type (in this case, {\tt article}). You can override
it nicely with the {\tt vspace*\{AMT\}} command

\vspace*{1.0in}

like so. You can also \hspace*{0.5in} insert horizontal space if you want, though it can look \hspace*{1.0in} very strange
indeed.

\vspace*{0.5in}

\noindent
If you want to override indenting at the beginning of a paragraph (like I just did here, to indicate
that this text is a continuation of the paragraph above), you can do that using command {\tt noindent}.

If you want, you can even go to the

\newpage

\noindent
top of the next page using command {\tt newpage}, though you probably want to only put this into the final version of a bit of text -- otherwise, as you add and delete text, you may find sudden empty space that you might not want.

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