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LATEX(1)               DragonFly General Commands Manual              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.

Web2C 2015                       27 April 2015                        LATEX(1)

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