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2 !!!LATEX
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 SEE ALSO
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8 !!NAME
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11 latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - structured text formatting and typesetting
12 !!SYNOPSIS
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15 __latex__ [[ first line ]
16 !!DESCRIPTION
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19 This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
20 documentation for this version of TEX can be found in the
21 info file or manual ''Web2C: A TeX
22 implementation''.
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25 The L A TEX language is described in the book
26 L A TEX ''- A Document Preparation
27 System''. L A TEX is a TEX macro package,
28 not a modification to the TEX source program, so all the
29 capabilities described in tex(1) are
30 present.
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33 The L A TEX macros encourage writers to think
34 about the content of their documents, rather than the form.
35 The ideal, very difficult to realize, is to have no
36 formatting commands (like ``switch to italic'' or ``skip 2
37 picas'') in the document at all; instead, everything is done
38 by specific markup instructions: ``emphasize'', ``start a
39 section''.
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42 The primary source of documentation for L A
43 TEX is the L A TEX manual referenced below,
44 and the local guide in the file ''local-guide.tex'' or
45 ''local.tex'' or some such.
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48 __elatex__ is the e-X extended mode version of L
49 A TEX format.
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52 __lambda__ is the Omega version of the L A
53 TEX format.
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56 __pdflatex__ is the pdfTEX version of the L
57 A TEX format.
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60 On some systems __latex209__ and __slitex__ are
61 available for compatibility with older versions of L
62 A TEX. These should not be used for new
63 texts.
64 !!SEE ALSO
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67 amslatex(1), amstex(1), tex(1),
68 Leslie Lamport, L A TEX ''- A Document
69 Preparation System'', Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN
70 0-201-15790-X.
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