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How to make a REPORT

Here's the basics of what you need to do to make a report:

1. Put the following lines at the very top of your file, replacing "Your Name
   Here" and "Your Title Here" with the appropriate text.

	\documentclass{report}
	\usepackage{fullpage}
	\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
	\author{Your Name Here}
	\title{Your Title Here}
	\begin{document}
	\maketitle
	\tableofcontents

   The first line says what sort of document to make (a report).  The
   next line says to set the margins to 1 inch all around.  The third
   line says to double space. 

   The next lines give the information to put on the title page.

   The sixth line says "Start the document", and the seventh means
   "Make a titlepage, and put it here", and the eighth "Make a table
   of contents, and put it here".

2. Next, enter the text of your report.  Where you want a chapter heading, put:

	\chapter{Your Chapter Title Here}

   You can also have other levels of header:

	\section{Your Section title Here}
	\subsection{Your Subsection title here}
	\subsubsection{Your subsubsection title here}
	\paragraph{Your paragraph title here}

   It isn't necessary to use all these levels, and you probably wouldn't want
   to for most reports.

3. At the very bottom of your file, put:

	\end{document}


That's it!  Now, you just need to run it through the formatter.  To do this,
save your file, and then type a command of the following form at the athena%
prompt:

	latex filename

(You'll need to latex twice in a row the first time you do this, to make sure
that the table of contents gets properly generated.)  If there aren't any
errors in formatting, this will produce a ".dvi" file.  You can view what this
file will look like printed out by typing:

	xdvi filename.dvi &

If you want to print it out, you'd type:

	dvips -Pprintername filename.dvi

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