redhat man page for latex

LATEX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  LATEX(1)

NAME
       latex, elatex, lambda, pdflatex - 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 real-
       ize, 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.

       elatex is the e-TX extended mode version of LaTeX format.

       lambda is the Omega version of the LaTeX format.

       pdflatex is the pdfTeX version of the LaTeX format.

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

Web2C 7.3.1							   29 March 1999							  LATEX(1)