# A First Slide

Open a new text document. Let's communicate the office way of drinking coffee. The first draft may look like this:

      * Come when you are thirsty.

      * Make new coffee if the pot is empty.

      * Fill your cup (regardless of size).

      * Insert 0,50 into the box.

This looks perfect - four points to state out. Start a point by a `*` character at the left margin, and complete it by an empty line. If it contains a lot of text, simply continue on the next line at any position like in

      * Fill your cup
        (regardless of size).

The lines will be automatically combined correctly until the documents end or an empty line follows. The whole thing is called a "paragraph". Paragraphs are a base principle of PerlPoint.