NAME

       latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and typesetting

SYNOPSIS

       latex [first-line]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation 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 Preparation 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  specific  markup  instructions:
       ``emphasize'', ``start a section''.

       The  primary  source of documentation for LaTeX is the LaTeX manual referenced 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 ALSO

       amslatex(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  Preparing,  Illustrating,  and  Publishing Technical Documents (2nd
       Edition), by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly  (Addison-
       Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0321269446).

Web2C 2013                                         14 May 2010                                          LATEX(1)