LATEX(1)                                                 LATEX(1)


NAME
       latex - structured text formatting and typesetting

SYNOPSIS
       latex [ first line ]

DESCRIPTION
       The      LaTeX      language      is      described     in
       LaTeX-ADocumentPreparationSystem, by Leslie Lamport,  pub-
       lished  by  Addison-Wesley.  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 con-
       tent of their documents, rather than the form.  The ideal,
       not  always  realized,  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''.

SEE ALSO
       slitex(1), tex(1)



































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