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.
    \documentstyle[fullpage,doublespace]{report}
    \author{Your Name Here}
    \title{Your Title Here}
    \begin{document}
    \maketitle
    \tableofcontents
    The first line says what sort of document to make (a doublespaced report with normal margins).

    The second and third lines give the information to put on the title page.

    The fourth line says Start the document, and the fifth means Make a titlepage, and put it here, and the sixth 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