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Sections in LaTeX with Gummi Editor

After successfully creating a sample LaTeX document in the previous tutorial, now we will try to understand the document structure in LaTeX with our Gummi Editor. We will learn, with pictures and examples, about sections (or similar to "headings" according to LibreOffice Writer) and basically how a document is organized. Now let's start our exercise!  

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 08, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Microsoft Office is a Dying Cash Cow and Now It's Just Dying/Starving
    Most people use Android and they don't need some bloated office suite because many processes involve Web forms
  2. Open Source Initiative's (OSI) Latest IRS Files: Only 2.9% (2.90046827447%) of Its Income is From Members
    So almost all the money is corporate
  3. Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (Formal Complaint)
    Time will tell if a Cheeto-controlled California will take this seriously or just brush it aside like a head of state from Ukraine
  4. Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part IV - Physical Health, Mental Health, and Debilitating Anxiety
    One is better off feeding stray pigeons (rather than scrolling and clicking on "timelines" like a dumb pigeon)

    New

  5. OpenAI, Deep in Debt With Growing Losses, Sees Web Traffic Falling Fourfold in a Year
    Microsoft's shares have fallen over 10% since the last report and OpenAI is trying to con people via Wall Street, offloading the debt to some gullible fools
  6. Microsoft's Social Control Media Efforts Cratering (GitHub and LinkedIn)
    Expect more layoffs
  7. Links 07/03/2025: Radio’s Death Knells and US Abandoning Ukraine
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 07/03/2025: Replacing Firefox with LibreWolf, Visiting Churches
    Links for the day
  9. Links 07/03/2025: Oracle Layoffs, HPE Eliminates 3,000 Jobs, Massive Price Hikes at Microsoft, More Surveillance in Microsoft's Stuff
    Links for the day
  10. Manslaughter: Haverfordwest convictions, Abraham Raji & Debian DebConf drowning
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  11. Half a Decade Without Social Control Media
    Not all audience is desirable
  12. IBM Laid Off Almost 2,000 Staff Last Friday and No Western Publication (Newspaper, Web Site) Even Mentioned That
    Only some Asian sites mentioned it
  13. Under IBM, After Killing OpenSource.com, the Next Casualty May be "Community Blog" of the Fedora Project
    It sounds like they already made the decision/s
  14. Links 07/03/2025: WSL Breakage (as Usual), Abandoning WordPress for Hugo
    Links for the day
  15. LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman
    "Compilation Of Corruption: Jeffrey Epstein And The Halls Of Academia"
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 06, 2025
    IRC logs for Thursday, March 06, 2025

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