LATEX(1)LATEX(1)NAME
latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and type‐
setting
SYNOPSISlatex [first-line]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documen‐
tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX implementation.
The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX - A Document Prepara‐
tion System. LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the
TeX source program, so all the capabilities described in tex(1) are
present.
The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their
documents, rather than the form. The ideal, very difficult to realize,
is to have no formatting commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip
2 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is done by spe‐
cific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.
The primary source of documentation for LaTeX is the LaTeX manual ref‐
erenced below, and the local guide in the file local-guide.tex or
local.tex or some such.
elatex is the e-TeX extended mode version of LaTeX format.
lambda is the Omega version of the LaTeX format.
pdflatex is the pdfTeX version of the LaTeX format.
On some systems latex209 and slitex are available for compatibility
with older versions of LaTeX. These should not be used for new texts.
SEE ALSOamslatex(1), amstex(1), pdflatex(1), pdftex(1), tex(1).
Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
1985, ISBN 020115790X.
Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and
Chris Rowley, LaTeX Companion, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0201362996
(2nd edition).
LaTeX Graphics Companion, available as part of a boxed set: The LaTeX
Companions, Revised Boxed Set : A Complete Guide and Reference for Pre‐
paring, Illustrating, and Publishing Technical Documents (2nd Edition),
by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Helmut Kopka,
Patrick W. Daly (Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0321269446).
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