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LATEX
!!!LATEX
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
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!!NAME


latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - 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 L A TEX language is described in the book
L A TEX ''- A Document Preparation
System''. L A TEX is a TEX macro package,
not a modification to the TEX source program, so all the
capabilities described in tex(1) are
present.


The L A TEX 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 L A
TEX is the L A TEX manual referenced below,
and the local guide in the file ''local-guide.tex'' or
''local.tex'' or some such.


__elatex__ is the e-X extended mode version of L
A TEX format.


__lambda__ is the Omega version of the L A
TEX format.


__pdflatex__ is the pdfTEX version of the L
A TEX format.


On some systems __latex209__ and __slitex__ are
available for compatibility with older versions of L
A TEX. These should not be used for new
texts.
!!SEE ALSO


amslatex(1), amstex(1), tex(1),
Leslie Lamport, L A TEX ''- A Document
Preparation System'', Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN
0-201-15790-X.
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