latex
LaTeX does the world's finest typeset-quality documentation
for material with mathematical content. It is the best choice
for preparing Math / Applied Math theses, since word processors
(Word) and other desktop publishing software (Framemaker) do
not do well with mathematical formulae, among other things.
Plus, there is a LaTeX macro -- ``Thesis Class'' -- which is
tailored for C. U. Boulder theses.
Manual page
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 com-
plete 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 Docu-
ment Preparation System. LaTeX is a TeX macro package, not
a modification to the TeX source program, so all the capa-
bilities described in tex(1) are present.
The LaTeX macros encourage writers to think about the con-
tent 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 docu-
ment 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 compa-
tibility 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.