.TH LATEX 1 "27 December 1992" "Web2C @VERSION@"
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.SH NAME
latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex \- structured text formatting and typesetting
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B latex
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete
documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
or manual
.IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
.PP
The \*(LX language is described in the book
.IR "\*(LX \- A Document Preparation System" .
\*(LX is a \*(TX macro package, not a modification to the \*(TX source
program, so all the capabilities described in
.BR tex (1)
are present.
.PP
The \*(LX 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''.
.PP
The primary source of documentation for \*(LX is the \*(LX manual 
referenced below, and the local guide in the file
.I local-guide.tex 
or 
.I local.tex
or some such.
.PP
.B elatex
is the e-\(*TX extended mode version of \*(LX format.
.PP
.B lambda
is the Omega version of the \*(LX format.
.PP
.B pdflatex
is the PDF\*(TX version of the \*(LX format.
.PP
On some systems
.B latex209
and
.B slitex
are available for compatibility with older versions of \*(LX.  These
should not be used for new texts.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR amslatex (1),
.BR amstex (1),
.BR tex (1),
.br
Leslie Lamport,
.IR "\*(LX \- A Document Preparation System" ,
Addison-Wesley, 1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.