NAME

       latex, pdflatex, lualatex, dvilualatex, xelatex, lamed - 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.

       pdflatex, lualatex, and xelatex, are LaTeX formats based on the respective engines.  All  output  PDF  by
       default.
       lambed is the Aleph-based LaTeX format (DVI output).

       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).

       The   LaTeX   home   page   is   http://latex-project.org.    A  list  of  some  LaTeX  tutorials  is  at
       http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex.  An unofficial reference manual for LaTeX is at
       http://home.gna.org/latexrefman.

Web2C 2015                                        27 April 2015                                         LATEX(1)