Guide to LaTeX (4th Edition) (Tools and Techniques

4.3 Lists
4.3. Lists 69
Exercise 4.2: Make up a new file with the name poem.tex and type your favorite
poem in the verse environment. Select 12pt as the standard font size and italic
as the typeface. Put the title of the poem before the verse environment in a
larger bold typeface, such as \Large\bfseries. Include the name of the poet
right justified.
Note: remember that you may include declarations to change the font style or
size within an environment and that these remain in effect only until the end of
that environment.
Exercise 4.3: Make up another file with the name title.tex. Do you recall
the titlepage environment for producing a free-form title page? If not, refer
to Section 3.3.1. Create a title page with this environment using font sizes and
styles of your choice, centering all the entries.
Note: within the titlepage environment you may of course make use of the
center environment, but it is also sufficient to give the \centering declaration
instead, since this will remain in effect only until the end of the titlepage
environment.
Choose the individual line spacings with the command \\[len] using an
appropriate value for the spacing len. Remember that vertical spacing before the
first line of text must be entered with the *-form of the command \vspace*[len]
(see Section 2.7.3).
Experiment with different font sizes and styles for the various parts of the
title page, such as title, author’s name, address, until you are satisfied with the
results.
Compare your own title page with that of Exercise 3.8. If your creation appeals
to you more, include it in your standard exercise file by replacing the commands
\title, \author, \date, and \maketitle with the titlepage environment and
your own entries.
There are three environments available for producing formatted lists:
\begin{itemize} list text \end{itemize}
\begin{enumerate} list text \end{enumerate}
\begin{description} list text \end{description}
In each of these environments, the list text is indented from the left margin
and a label, or marker, is included. What type of label is used depends
on the selected list environment. The command to produce the label is
\item.
4.3.1 Sample itemize
• The individual entries are indicated with a black dot, a so-called
bullet, as the label.