[tex-live] compact latex samples?

[Karl Berry]

    please excuse my laziness]

You can be forgiven anything, Thanh :).

    I am looking for some compact latex samples, 

See if any of these tutorials suit ...

http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/
http://tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/

And here are pointers to more:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tutorials*

Best,
karl