Minimal example please!

[stevem]

Often you need an answer to questions like "How do I ...?", "Why doesn't it work when...?", "Why do I get errors..."? It may be that the problem is something simple like leaving out a }, a typo or a clash of packages but for anyone else to see the problem you need post a sample document called a minimal example. This minimal example should be a short, but complete, LaTeX document. There is a very good description of such a minimal example at http://www.latex-einfuehrung.de/mini-en.html which I repeat (slightly edited) here: