LATEX(1)                    General Commands Manual                   LATEX(1)



NAME
       latex,  elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and type-
       setting

SYNOPSIS
       latex [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 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 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).



Web2C 2014                        14 May 2010                         LATEX(1)
