%%
%% Template LaTeX2e file
%%
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{german,umlaut,color}

\title {
some title text
}

\author {
\sf Who I am
}

%% if you wanna set a specified date:
%\date {
%25-Mar-88
%}

\sloppy

%% enlarge page (if desired)
%\addtolength {\topmargin}{-54pt}
%\addtolength {\textheight}{108pt}
%\addtolength {\oddsidemargin}{-5pc}
%\addtolength {\evensidemargin}{-5pc}
%\addtolength {\textwidth}{10pc}

\begin {document}

\maketitle

%%\tableofcontents

\section {
this is the section heading
}

section text as you like  \footnote {or do you wanna have a foot note?}
You can include German umlauts in ISO 8859-1 encoding: ����, but you
can also construct more complicated international letters like in
Plze\v{n}, the origin of beer.

% this demonstrates the three color models, and how to define a new
% color
\definecolor{gray50}{gray}{.5}
\definecolor{paleturquoise}{rgb}{.686,.933,.933}
\definecolor{brown}{cmyk}{.0,.8,.5,.5}

% NB: black is a predefined color
\fcolorbox{black}{paleturquoise}{This text appears in a box on
``pale turquoise'' background.}

\textcolor{brown}{Some text could be brown...}
\textcolor{gray50}{and some gray.}

%% some special features:

%\begin {itemize}
%\item item # 1 goes here
%\end {itemize}

%\begin {description}
%\item [ item to describe:] the description itself
%\end {description}

%\begin {enumerate}
%\item item # 1
%\item item # 2...
%\end {enumerate}

%\begin {center}
%% four columns, two left-adjusted, two centered
%\begin {tabular}{|l|l|c|c|}
%\hline \hline
% & & & \\
%{\large Col1} & {\large Col2} & {\large Col3} & {\large Col4} \\
% & & & \\
%\hline \hline 
%item1 & item 2  & item 3  & item 4 \\ \hline
%\end {tabular}
%\end {center}
%%\newpage

\end {document}

