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\LARGE{This weekend, I learnt how to format and write simple
 documents using \LaTeX~!}
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It's amazing how easy the language is to learn and use, and
how good it makes documents look.  I think I'm going to
start doing the documentation for ALICE in both plaintext
and PostScript.
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