Creating a book with chapters

We will start to write a book. First, we shall choose a class, and use some filler text to work out the page layout. Let's see how to do it:

1. Create a new document, and enter the following lines as our preamble:

   \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
   \usepackage[english]{babel}
   \usepackage{blindtext}

2. Proceed with writing the document body containing a chapter heading, section and subsection headings, and some filler text:

   \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}

3. Compile it by clicking on Typeset. Look at the first page:

Figure 3.1 – An example page

We have chosen the document class book. As the name implies, this class is suitable for book-like documents. Books are commonly two-sided...