NAME
          latex - structured text formatting and typesetting

     SYNOPSIS
          latex [ first line ]

     DESCRIPTION
          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, and the local guide in the file
          local-guide.tex or local.tex or some such somewhere in the
          directory @TEXINPUTDIR@.

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