LATEX
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 27 December 1992
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NAME
latex - structured text formatting and typesetting
SYNOPSIS
latex
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DESCRIPTION
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 somewhere in the directory /ade/lib/texmf/tex.
SEE ALSO
amslatex(1),
amstex(1),
slitex(1),
tex(1),
Leslie Lamport,
LaTeX - A Document Preparation System,
Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.
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