27 December 1992                                                  LATEX(1)



   NAME
     latex - structured text formatting and typesetting

   SYNOPSIS
     latex [ first line ]

   DESCRIPTION
     The LaTeX language is described in the book LaTeX - A Document Prepara-
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     tion System.  LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not a modification to the
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     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 refer-
     enced below, and the local guide in the file local-guide.tex or
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     local.tex or some such somewhere in the directory
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     /usr/users/klee/NTex/web2c-6.1/lib/texmf/tex.

   SEE ALSO
     amslatex(1), amstex(1), slitex(1), tex(1),
     Leslie Lamport, LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
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     1985, ISBN 0-201-15790-X.