LATEX(1)LATEX(1)NAME
latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text format-
ting and typesetting
SYNOPSISlatex [ first line ]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The com-
plete 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 Doc-
ument 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 con-
tent of their documents, rather than the form. The ideal,
very difficult to realize, is to have no formatting com-
mands (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 sec-
tion''.
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-TX 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 com-
patibility with older versions of LaTeX. These should not
be used for new texts.
SEE ALSOamslatex(1), amstex(1), tex(1),
Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System,
Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
Web2C 7.4.5 29 March 1999 LATEX(1)
