Time for action – writing a book with chapters

We will start to write a book. At first, we shall choose a class, further we will use some filler text to work out the page layout.

1. Create a new document with the following code:

   \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}
   \begin{document}
   \chapter{Exploring the page layout}
   In this chapter we will study the layout of pages.
   \section{Some filler text}
   \blindtext
   \section{A lot more filler text}
   More dummy text will follow.
   \subsection{Plenty of filler text}
   \blindtext[10]
   \end{document}

2. Save the document and Typeset it. Look at the first page:

   

What just happened?

We have chosen the document class book. As the name implies, this class is suitable for book-like documents. Books are commonly two-sided and consist of chapters which usually start at right-hand pages. They may have a front matter with one or more title pages and a back matter with bibliography, index, and so on. The book class supports all of this...