Compiling issues

Question

I made my a latex file on Kile in Ubuntu. The script that I used was

\documentclass{article}

\title{Hello, Cruel World!}
\author{Obedient Grad Student}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Introduction}
This is where you tell people why they should bother reading your article.

\section{Literature Review}
This is the section that is invariably much longer than it should be, and
where everyone tries to impress peers about how easy it is to locate various
references in online databases.

\section{Conclusion}
Not much of a paper, but it's a start.

\end{document}

The first problem is that the title and the text start on the same line. The title and the author are on the same line. Secondly the documentclass is getting pinted i.e. the article starts with the word article!

Hope someone can help.

Answer 1

As @egreg commented above, make sure you compile with pdflatex rather than pdftex - this is what your example looks like when I compile it with pdflatex:

For Comparison

compiling with pdftex gives exactly the output described by the OP