title: A Sample Chapter author: Michael DiBernardo

A lot of people like to start chapters with a quote like this, or something similarly inspiring.

"Good chapters will make judicious use of formatting..." Anonymous

There are a lot of quotes that can be used for inspiration. This page has quite a few.

Images usually make something look more important.

\aosafigure[240pt]{sample-images/image.png}{Extreme Gravity}{500l.sample.image}

It's especially useful if you can refer to images like \aosafigref{500l.sample.image} later in the text.[^invented]

We can render a lot of useful stuff in tables like \aosatblref{500l.tbl.tablesample}.

: \label{500l.tbl.tablesample} User perception of latency \begin{table} \centering {\footnotesize \rowcolors{2}{TableOdd}{TableEven} \begin{tabular}{rl} \hline \textbf{Delay} & \textbf{User Reaction} \ \hline 0--100 ms & Instant \ 100--300 ms & Small perceptible delay \ 300--1000 ms & Machine is working \ 1 s+ & Mental context switch \ 10 s+ & I'll come back later{\ldots} \ \hline \end{tabular} } \caption{User Perception of Latency} \label{500l.tbl.tablesample} \end{table}

Sometimes things are difficult to put in the PDF, but are fine to put into HTML. We can use markdown or latex tags for these cases, which let us choose what to show in each context. An example of this might be a long link, like a reference to part of the HTML5 specpart of the HTML5 spec \footnote{\url{http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#link-type-prefetch}} .

You can use LaTeX dollar-style rendering inline in the source markdown and it will "just work" in the PDF, such as with this relation taken from POSA: $S(N) = \frac{1}{(1 - P) + \frac{P}{N}}$. The HTML version plays some tricks with MathJax to achieve the same thing.

A lot of authors will cite their references via footnotes. However, if you'd rather use normal bibtex-style citations, you can use normal LaTeX citation formatting and this will reference the resources in the final bibliography \cite{Schmidt:02g}.