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 LaTeX language is described in the book
LaTeX - A Document 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 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 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-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
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).