Introduction

The previous chapter presented recipes for creating whole documents. You may use them as starting points. Now, we will focus on customizing text details. The upcoming sections broadly deal with the following:

We are not yet dealing with fonts. This topic deserves a whole chapter, and will be covered in Chapter 3, Adjusting Fonts.

We will start with some very useful basics, cover some helpful things, and end the chapter with recipes that show off what LaTeX can do beyond rectangular paragraphs.