## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

latex

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of *(TX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation .

The *(LX language is described in the book \*(LX - A Document Preparation System . *(LX is a *(TX macro package, not a modification to the *(TX source program, so all the capabilities described in tex (1)are present.

The *(LX 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 *(LX is the *(LX 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 *(LX format.

lambda is the Omega version of the *(LX format.

pdflatex is the pdf*(TX version of the *(LX format.

On some systems latex209 and slitex are available for compatibility with older versions of *(LX. These should not be used for new texts.

## SEE ALSO

amslatex (1), amstex (1), pdflatex (1), pdftex (1), tex (1).

Leslie Lamport, \*(LX - 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).