latex(1)

NAME

   latex,  pdflatex,  lualatex,  dvilualatex,  xelatex, lamed - 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.

   pdflatex,  lualatex,  and  xelatex,  are  LaTeX  formats  based  on the
   respective engines.  All output PDF by default.
   lambed is the Aleph-based LaTeX format (DVI output).

   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).

   The LaTeX home page is http://latex-project.org.  A list of some  LaTeX
   tutorials   is  at  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-
   latex.    An   unofficial   reference   manual   for   LaTeX   is    at
   http://home.gna.org/latexrefman.

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