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)
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LATEX-MK(1) [FIXME: manual] LATEX-MK(1)NAME
latex-mk - automate compilation of LaTeX files.
SYNOPSIS
latex-mk [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the latex-mk commands. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
latex-mk is a wrapper script used by the LaTeX-Mk makefile system for LaTeX documents. Its purpose is to run LaTeX the appropriate number
of times to resolve all references and page changes associated with resolving references.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-h --help
Show description of the script.
--version
Show version of program.
-b --bibtex
Force call to BibTeX.
--clean
Delete log file.
--debug
Enable debug mode.
--ignore-errors
Ignore errors.
--pdflatex
Use pdflatex instead of latex.
--tex2page
Use tex2page instead of latex.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere rafael@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Rafael Laboissiere
[FIXME: source] January 28, 2006 LATEX-MK(1)
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