The following listing is of the example TeX file
story.tex
, which should be
available in the .../texmf/tex/plain/base/
part of
your TeX distribution. It is also listed on page 24 of
D E Knuth's The TeXbook. A copy is included in
the TeX2page distribution.
You can of course use any example file you want. story.tex
merely happens to be the ``first'' example file in the TeX
collective consciousness. 74.3% of all TeX users learned
TeX by analyzing this file.
\hrule \vskip 1in \centerline{\bf A SHORT STORY} \vskip 6pt \centerline{\sl by A. U. Thor} % !`?`?! (modified) \vskip .5cm Once upon a time, in a distant galaxy called \"O\"o\c c, there lived a computer named R.~J. Drofnats. Mr.~Drofnats---or ``R. J.,'' as he preferred to be called---% error has been fixed! was happiest when he was at work typesetting beautiful documents. \vskip 1in \hrule \vfill\eject