latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, dvilualatex, cslatex, pdfcslatex, platex,
uplatex, lamed - structured text formatting and typesetting
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This manual page is a mere skeleton.
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 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 referenced
below.
lualatex,
pdflatex,
pdfcslatex,
xelatex are LaTeX
formats based on the respective engines. All output PDF by default.
platex,
uplatex are Japanese LaTeX formats based on e-pTeX and
e-upTeX (DVI output).
lamed is the Aleph-based LaTeX format (DVI output).
dvilualatex is LuaTeX-based and outputs DVI.
cslatex is csTeX-based (primitives integrated into pdfTeX) and outputs
DVI.
On some systems
latex209 and
slitex may still be available for
compatibility with older versions of LaTeX. These should not be used for new
texts.
amstex(1),
luatex(1),
pdftex(1),
ptex(1),
tex(1),
xetex(1).
Leslie Lamport,
LaTeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley,
1985, ISBN 020115790X.
Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris
Rowley,
LaTeX Companion, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0201362996 (2nd
edition).
The LaTeX home page is
http://latex-project.org.
A list of some LaTeX tutorials is at
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex.
An unofficial reference manual for LaTeX is at
https://ctan.org/pkg/latex2e-help-texinfo.