.TH LATEX 1 "7 Jan 92"
.SH NAME
latex \- structured text formatting and typesetting
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B latex
[ first line ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The LaTeX language is described in
.IR LaTeX \- A Document Preparation System ,
by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison-Wesley.  LaTeX is a TeX macro
package, not a modification to the TeX source program, so all the
capabilities described in
.BR tex (1)
are present.
.PP
The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the content of their
documents, rather than the form.  The ideal, not always realized, 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''.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
slitex(1), tex(1)