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Notes on making the LaTeX markup language do what you want it to do.

* use pdflatex(1) to create [PDF] files. See the [PdfLatexNotes] page for more.
** alternately, you could use [LaTeXpdf] (which is a different method for making PDFs from LaTeX).
* [Here|http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/] is a really good online HTML doc about LaTeX commands

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Here is a command that lets you do different things with numbers depending on their magnitude.
<verbatim>
\newcommand{\formatnumber}[[1]{
  \ifnum#1=0 {\bf zero} \else
  \ifnum#1<2 {\bf one} \else
   {\bf two or more}\fi
  \fi
}
</verbatim>

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!!! Error messages
!!Float(s) lost
<verbatim>
! LaTeX Error: Float(s) lost.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...

l.2085 \end{figure}

?
[34]

! LaTeX Error: This may be a LaTeX bug.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
</verbatim>

I got this message when I had a figure at the start of a <tt>\subsection</tt> with no text before it. Moving the figure down a bit so that some text appeared before it in the input file fixed this.

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