LATEX(1)
NAME
latex - structured text formatting and typesetting
SYNOPSIS
latex
[ first line ]
DESCRIPTION
The language is described in the book
- A Document Preparation System
.
is a macro package, not a modification to the source
program, so all the capabilities described in
tex
(1)
are present.
The macros encourage writers to think about the content 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
amslatex
(1),
amstex
(1),
slitex
(1),
tex
(1),
Leslie Lamport,
- A Document Preparation System
,
Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.