LATEX(1)                                                           LATEX(1)
                              27 December 1992






 NAME
      latex - structured text formatting and typesetting


 SYNOPSIS
      latex [ first line ]


 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
      /opt/teTeX/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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